Chapter 5
The divorce papers on our khen counter for the daya belom Edward acknowledged their t
sabellas porfume and so yesterday’s clothes took look at the legal documents and downs argelver before.
He gritted te papers, shaking them in my face
“You can do this there’s completely dependent en met
hit “you can do the tours” or “you can de
Her parents disowned het, she has no siblings, no real senda ut
“Because she dives them allaway sad calmly pouring myself handi
“Antike she’ls dren you away from one who actually came about you!
Edward low The papers in tall, then in quaters, letting the pieces fluter to our marble floor like contes
Twork sign them won’t abandon someone who needs me
That’s when my phon
“Sophia, darling I hope you’re sitting down. The board has proved the London pmmation. Youll be heading our European expansion, effective immediatay”
“The salary simple your cute lock options. You’ll be enough buy and self of Manhattan
Trillant There just one complication where has been calling offing your sister law Bothing about family perity quring pauc
rem? Security had to eat her out yester
“Looks like your decision just got a lot more complicated”
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Chapter 6
Londonis financial district, elcomed me over
The morning fog med off the Thames as my sad wound through streets lined with gloss towers that effected cents of antion and
fio, id solved a technical integration problem that had payed for overwerk
The solution was legant, brutal, and exactly what the Morrison doal needed to me Tonward.
Tembang and offdware les
“Tady brillante matching the cops reports populata in
To wonder the New Yok office was no
ev in sharp auta moved with purpose and clay
Twan explaining Exmi mégation Desko when my assistant knocked on the glo
vis a perderman har daming to be your husband. He says an emergen
u, despite my instructiona lycation confiderat, hacked me down
Edward lood in the reception ama looung like dean warned over his usually pristine appearance disheveled and pale
H
His kit hund pressed against i
mach, and i could so sweating deptheir conting
These people deal
alice was pretending not to eavesdrop
To them, I was simply Saphis Harington, the briliani Amscan count whot salged the biggest dealin years.
“Starmach ulcers. The постонут chess
He pulled out a medical report with sh
“need you to come home
Vincent appeared beside me, his proxective instincts cleary actuated
Ha prouence was messung–safest of Brich all in a perfectly blond
“The baby” Edward continued, have breaking
The patamay lest it might not be mine. The diges es dont matan, and shas been lying adecuad—”
The dogs was meal, but the breng was suspicious
Stress–induced ulcers didn’t develop overnight.
They were the result of months or years of internal conflict
“You have a bleeding ulcer, foward fix sensus but not fatal with proper treatment Go home, take your medication, and leave me alone.”
“She had a private pistgated be whepered, kareng closer
To follow you She has photos of you with Vincent al pesturants at the hotel. She’s planning something Sophia think anak pang ka.”
going to whath Destroy my reputation my car?
I funded the report back to him
Taabella thought she could destroy me by exposing my
security red Edward from the building caught me of a woman in oversized sunglasting in blackedcross the
Even from so
She was photographing Edward’s humiliation
Documenting has brak down for whatever t twisted pupose she had in mind
“Frendal yours” Vincentyl
“Soon–to–be–ex–husband’s soon to be ex–mata
replied, pulling out my phone
“Phil” it’s me I need you to run interference on a Surveillandis And Vincent? i think it’s line wo dud than an expansion you mentioned”
By the looked back at the street, me sadan was gone.
Bhading that was far from over
