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y ankles like liquid shadow. The sprawling estate lawn was lit up like a festival, swarming with Chicago's high

background jazz music seemed to dip

ed openly. Heads turned in shock as they took in my poised posture, the sharp e

window to slip into Richard's study and retrieve my mother's precious heirloom l

tic friends, backing Eliza Morgan into the ivy-covered wall. Eliza

, waving her iPhone inches from Eliza's face, "I'll make sure these private art sketches from your stu

ivate figure studies," Eliza c

el powerful in this house, Amber?" I spo

disbelief. Her jaw dropped as she looked at my face, completely unable to reconcile the

us disgust. "You... you think putting on expensive makeup makes y

personal space. The temper

r the pho

Amber snapped, raisin

pressed firmly into the radial nerve cluster on her wrist. Amber gasped as he

ck!" Amber shrieke

code, executing a complete wipe of her local s

s are permanently de

traight onto the massive digital projector behind the DJ booth: verified bank records showing Amber

g the prominent guests and board

ping the wiped phone back into her trembling hands, "and those

ace draining of all color as the surrou

g her away from the terrace. "Come