a

wing pain i

consciousness in a stark

hrough the window,

bustled in,

o his girlfriend, isn't he

e model? She's l

weak rasp. "I'm.

ach other, then at Ava

apologies and

ain. Alw

o sit up, n

nt daggers of p

the call button,

, sending her tumbling from the

her wound. A cry

reaked ope

s silhouette

ooking at he

ught she saw a flicker of some

it was

ked away, leaving

iam's COO, visited Liam

es from her own room down th

t. "What you're doing to Ava... it's

My parents, my sister. Why should she l

is innocent, Liam

tight with a pain Ava recognized. "So I can't forgive

sh stab to Ava's alr

ecovering, Ava rece

ict

in a hospital gown, a

as a distinctive vint

reath h

cherished heirloom. The last

't you think? Liam agrees. He said it brings out the bl

through Ava, momentarily ec

clutching her side, and stumbl

admiring herself

that?" Ava demanded

"Liam gave it to me. A

mother's! G

ce, publicly take all the blame for everything, say you never loved him, that you only

ified. The cruel

it was all she had

ed. "I'll give you the divorc

ive me th

r like a whip. He stood in the

rheard only the en

e more for this bauble than for any remnant of what we

from Chloe's neck, the

rything connected

's balcony, the door to th

unging after him, desper

rm to throw it

it, a desperat

ands co

gle, Ava los

orld

as fa

Liam's throat, ra

r roof with si

kne

ultiple fractures... internal

oesn't get to die that easily. I deci

in a sea of pa

, a flicker of defiance in her fading

even grant her

ison with no escape