gift on the restroom mirror, watching the floor numbers drop as h

ed her lips as she

creature! What the hell

he speaker. Casandra held the phone three inche

a what you're

pagne tonight and set her and Jim up!" Ernesto barked, always quick to protect h

let out a

ll you I forced her to strip

ver do such a thing! You've been jealous of her since

the ground-floor lobby. Casandra walked out acro

he engagement party tomorrow morning-let's

e alliance, I'll cut off your grandmother's me

bby pillars. Her fingers tightened around

d relative who actually loved her-and the sole reason sh

-is that all you've got?" Casandra ask

alliance proceed, and I guarantee Martha keeps her private

nd, letting the last trace of patience fo

g her clear, dark eyes. "I won't delete the v

k out of this hotel tonight

what I

ough the revolving glass doors into the rainy Manhattan nig

ecial assistant, Colin Reynolds, led a squad of

he ruthless head of Apex Century sitting motionless on the toile

u?" Colin rushed forward, re

is high-tech wheelchair-a prop he usually only used in public to fool the Black family board into thinki

ze. His gaze locked onto five words scrawled

ly Still Ext

e first letters spelled out L-O-S-E-R. Worse yet, the phrasing mocked the exact fake par

d in a sharp breath, and dropped his head

eeth. "Pull every hotel camera from tonight

, Bo

rom a man who wanted her phone-I want to know exactly who she is." Dedric's mind w

in years. As the underground medical legend known on the dark web as The Surgeon, paying her grandmo

k coffee to warm her hands. Just as she stepped back onto

ollapsed!

She tossed her coffee cup into a trash bin and spr

ilored wool coat, his face gray and his hands