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“A woman, huh… After all the work we’ve done, once we find James, she’ll make a nice little bonus” “Yeah, that nosey bitch-should’ve minded her own business. I’m gonna kill her myself! Lily’s skin crawled at the sound of their cruel, malicious voices. She could make out at least a dozen different voices. If she…

Snapping herself back to the task, Lily pressed a hand to her thudding chest, then gritted her teeth and struggled to pull off his suit jacket and shirt. Then came the belt buckle… and Lity hesitated again. The shirt had been manageable-but his pants…. It felt like she was trying to take advantage of him….

Lily was still fuming from the call her chest heaving from the sheer rage John always managed to spark in her. And yet… a creeping dread was settling into her bones Maybe it was because she was still worried sick about James, but as her rideshare neared the mountain road, she thought she spotted James’…

James, you have to survive. I have to find you! She wiped the corners of her eyes and forced herself forward, sprinting across the bridge. “James…” The men were still a good distance behind. They probably couldn’t hear her. But just in case, she kept her voice low, barely whispering his name. No answer. Almost…

“Don’t cut me off like this. I don’t want us to go our separate ways. I don’t want us to become strangers. Take me to your grandfather. I’ll talk to him. I’ll beg him to let us be together.” Lily froze. The words stunned her speechless. Her grandfather had been dead for years. Where was…

James’ lips parted slightly. do thing rude, right?” She did. She absolutely did But honestly, what he’d done was even worse. He was in no position to call her out on anything. After a long silence, he finally answered, cars burning. “You were… fine.” Lily let out a long breath. So he was going to…

After parting ways with James, she’d been moving through the world like a ghost, as if her soul had been ripped out of her. She didn’t even glance at the caller ID. She picked up out of habit, blankly. “Lily…” Just her luck. It was John. His voice sounded exhausted, heavy with weariness. “Elsa attempted…

In her muddled drunkenness, she vaguely remembered how nice James’ chest looked. And how nice it probably felt. If she were sober, there was no way she’d even glance at it, let alone touch it. If she so much as bumped into him while his shirt was unbuttoned, she’d have scurried away like a startled…

He was just about to pull her beneath him, to fully surrender to the fire consuming him-when he realized she’d fallen asleep. Somewhere in the chaos, without warning, she’d drifted off. She wasn’t sober. Not in the slightest.. And what he’d just done-losing control like that-was already a violation of her boundaries. He wasn’t a…

She never imagined that a casual mention in a chat would stick with James-that he’d actually go out of his way to have a winemaker craft cherry wine just for her. On the rack nearby, beautiful glass bottles gleamed. And it wasn’t just cherry wine. There was white peach, lychee, blueberry, passionfruit… everything she could…