Chapter 54

He swaggered over to the liquor cabinet, grabbed a bottle of booze, poured half a shot, and downed it in one go.

The spicy, potent taste of alcohol lingered in his mouth.

His fist smashed hard against the wall.

He had lost control!

He had fallen for a woman who tried to drug him, tried to possess him, a woman of extreme greed and vanity….

Allison was already gone as the first light of day began to creep in the next morning.

She hadn’t slept a wink.

As she was leaving Magnolia Gardens, Lucian stood at the second–floor study window, his gaze fixed on her.

Was she that eager to leave?

Those tricks lose their magic when overused.

just a maid, how could he

if he could smell that intoxicating cherry

it was on

it on Penelope

clearly not the

rest

fall apart, her mother still needed her.

check–up at the hospital, Allison went to the small

Allison would walk Grace here almost every day.

wondered how Grace was doing now.

transplant would occur tomorrow, but she wouldn’t let

along the lake’s edge when she suddenly noticed a

and steadied her, “The lake is

voice was gentle and kind.

as if she’d been electrocuted.

run into

surgery recently, and my vision hasn’t fully recovered. I’ve been stuck in my room for a

better?” Allison’s

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