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“I…” I sucked in a deep breath, rooting for my voice where it had dropped into my stomach. “I don’t have anywhere to go.”
“Nonsense,” Caroline said, eyes flashing as she came forward beside the crouching man and deigned to give me her manicured hand to help me to my feet. “You’re a friend of this family, Bianca. You’ll come with me.”
“Why would you help me?” I asked.
I’d learned the hard way things that looked too good to be true, often were.
She cocked her head to one side and smiled, this time large enough to see her perfectly straight, white teeth. “Because, my dear, no friend of the Constantine family will ever be left out in the cold. Not while I’m head of this family.”
Her words reverberated through me, striking chord after chord until I thrummed with new hope.
I hesitated then placed my hand in hers.
Her smile widened.
For the third time in my life, I was changing course. I knew if I accepted Caroline’s help, I’d never see Tiernan again. She’d help me get Brando and we’d leave Lion Court for good. The haunted house would go back to being the echoing home of a monster and Brando and I would be where we belonged.
With Dad’s family.
Everything I’d always hoped for was literally at my fingertips.
So why did it feel like heartbreak when I slid my hand into Caroline’s and she clutched it tight?
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Heartless
Jade West
CHAPTER ONE
Lucian
The dossier waitedin an outstretched hand. The hand belonged to my secretary, judging by the pink polka dots decorating her nails. I took it as I slid into my seat beside the head analyst. Across the corner from me was a guy from media relations.
They had names, of course. I knew what they were, just like I knew how much was in each of their bank accounts and what their overall GPA was.
