“Lucian, folks like you who are loaded may talk about pride, but for a poor sod like me, pride is priceless. If I’d known you had a thing for virgins, I would’ve kept myself pure and then spent a night with you. That way, you’d have had to marry me, right?”

Sometimes, the sharpest weapon wasn’t a blade, but words that cut like a knife.

As her words hung in the air, Lucian’s gaze turned colder, a vein on his forehead pulsing. He was afraid he’d hurt the woman before him if he didn’t control himself.

“I don’t want to see you with Jason again. If I do, I’ll make sure you disappear from Northfield.”

“Disappear how?”

The woman’s hair spread out on the man’s pillow, a smile playing on her lips, seemingly unafraid. “Jason’s into me. You should go talk to him. What’s the point of talking to me? You guys are right; I’m a gold digger. I just want the dough, and I’m happy when a rich guy’s chasing me.”

Allison could finish, a hand was

“I’ve had twenty–one tough years. If you plan

Sometimes, death can be a relief.

and brother in heaven and see how they were

tell her father and brother how hard things had been for her and her mother these

visit her grandmother and be by

wanted her grandmother’s

she could not afford surgery or hospital stays. She was moved from a room to

the

lost her

mental institution, under Leah’s

She breathed heavily, her voice

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