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nica)
e years, those same hands had gripped the steering wheel of a beat-up Chevrolet for fourteen hours a day, ferrying drunkard
thirty-six-hour overtime shift on the top floor of the Ape
st to bring him d
s I approached the mahogany double doors at the end of the hall, the silence was
lower... what if
h husky impatience. "Besides, Domenica is probably stuck in downtown traffic chasing twenty-dol
owed. "Poor thing. She works
e mood. You're the one who can
umbness. Three years of sacrifices, three years of swallowing insu
kicked the heavy mah
A
ffice, Curtis had a woman in a backless burgundy slip dress pi
his face before settling into an ugly sneer. His dress
lenched around the cups until the cardboard creaked. "Is th
ousled chestnut curls, revealing a face I knew all too well - Brant Montoya, the hei
shing between me and Brant as if shieldi
ath, stepping into my personal space, his eyes darting toward the open hallway.
as paid for with my money. The shirt on your back was bought with my tips. And you
epartment's connection with Apex's executive board! We were discussing strategy. You barge in with your d
ouboutins. She draped a slender, manicured arm over Curtis's
er comprehend the sheer pressure of high finance? Domenica, you live in the dirt. You survive on scraps. When Curtis climbs to the
ood girl. Go home, draw Curtis a bath, and pretend you didn't se
he office we
t Curtis, who stood there nodding along to eve
et woman?"
, leaning closer. "Know
e is rig
the first cup and hurled the boiling
ing backward as the scalding dark liquid drenched her silk dress, staining he
rage. He lunged forward, raising his right hand, his p
thought he c
like an iron vice, clamping violently around his wrist. Using his own forward mo
AC
. He dropped to the floor, doubled over in agony, hi
e inches from his pal
pping to a lethal whisper. "You think you're a high-flying executive? You think you're a man?
ollapsed onto the carpet, groaning and cra
sperately at her ruined chest with paper towels. "You're dead, Dom
ver to Curtis's desk, and dumped the black liquid entirely over the stacks
d through the logo
this room stinks of cheap ambition and b
heel and walked
esperation and venom. "Walk out that door, and we are done! You will
lled the doors shut behind me, and slammed them closed w
ind whipped through my hair, carrying the first heavy drops of a coming sto
. For the first time in
e - it was the custom, encrypted satellite phone nestled in the hidden inner lining. The scree
reen and brough
deeply authoritative voi
the three-year
he obedient, subservient housewife who had smiled polite
Carlisle?" I spoke, my v
rence. "The family trust of three hundred billion dollars has been fully unlocked. As of sixty seconds ago, one hundred perc
craper cutting into the gray clouds above me. Curtis was still up there,
mile tugged at the
just told me he was co
ss out into the rain right now?" Carlisle asked, ice in his ton
s hissing over the wet pavement. I stepped f
reaked window. "Death is too merciful when given instantly. Let him believe he
wed into razo
kick him into t
mmand, my Sovereign,
encrypted phone into my bag,
to, m
he hills," I said coldly. "I

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