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ARLENEIt took every ounce of self-control I had to walk past Cole and step into my dad’s home office instead of making a run for the front door.Once I stepped out of my room, I decided it was time to face the reality staring me in the face.There was no escaping it now, and if I had known it would come knocking this soon, I would’ve pushed for the marriage to happen earlier than it did.I entered the office and waited for everyone else to follow. When Mirela walked in, I resisted the urge to yell at her to get out.She was the mastermind behind this situation—if she hadn’t invited Cole, everything else would’ve been easier to deal with. But then again, when has life ever dealt me a good hand?My dad took his seat as Cole gently shut the door behind him. Soon, all I could hear was the ticking of the clock in the room and the heavy silence that held a thousand questions I wasn’t ready to answer.“Now that we’re all here,” my father began after a long silence, glancing at Cole before r
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COLE“Mirela, this better be really important. I was in a very—” I overheard Mr. Gomez say as he and his wife walked down the hallway toward where I stood.“I promise you, my darling, I would never pull you out of your meeting over something trivial. This is equally important—if not more significant—than the meeting you just left,” came the reply, and I shifted my weight from one foot to the other.“What could possibly be more important than my meeting? Why couldn’t you tell me while I was in there? Do I really have to step out of my office to hear it? It better be a life-or-death situation,” he responded, and I ran my hands through my hair as the voices drew closer.Standing there, listening to them go back and forth as they approached, I began to doubt my stance on the issue a little. What if I was wrong, and it was a different tattoo?I shook my head slowly. It wasn’t different. I had seen it too many times to mistake it—it was the same one.And if it wasn’t, all she had to do was
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ARLENEI stood with my back to the door once it was locked. The sound of it shutting echoed throughout the house and made me jump slightly.I restrained myself from banging my fist against it, but there was no denying that I was frustrated beyond reason.“What the hell just happened?” I muttered under my breath and pinched my arm in hopes that this was a terrible dream. But unfortunately, I was wide awake, and the worst had happened.It was unnerving that Cole had come in here while I was changing my clothes, but what was more disturbing was that he had seen the tattoo.He saw it, and all my attempts to play it off as him being drunk and to fixate on the fact that he was in my room—which was a perverse thing to do—had been swept under the rug.The memory of his eyes beaming with realization when he recognized the tattoo flashed through my mind, and I groaned.When he had mentioned telling my family about what he had seen, I felt a cold chill envelope my body. I struggled to maintain m
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COLEShe was clearly annoyed, but beyond that look, there was something else in her expression—the realization that I had caught onto her façade.She stuttered for a split second, and that’s when I knew I was right. I couldn’t help the smile that stayed on my face.I hadn’t entered her room intentionally. That was an honest mistake. I’d spent the day getting brunch at a high-end restaurant, then started visiting the bars in the city after my meeting with Liam Walker.But I hadn’t drunk enough to make me hallucinate. Most of the time I was in there, I was thinking about what Liam had said and the implications if anyone else believed I had killed Yasmin.I tried to distract myself by observing the people who came in and out—if I was going to turn the new property into a bar or casino, I needed to be sure it was the right move. There was a lot to consider, and I was weighing my options.I had also been thinking about Arlene. The resemblance she bore to Yasmin was far too uncanny for her
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ARLENE“I hope it is. I’ve had enough terrible experiences—I’d hate to get into something that’s wrong for me again.”“This is different. I can feel it,” she replied, and I shrugged. “Now we’re going to do something equally splendid.”“What’s that?” I asked.“Get dinner at your favourite restaurant,” she answered, letting out a pleased chuckle.Dinner with Olivia was wonderful. She spent the entire evening giving me updates about everything that had happened in the city while I was away, and I was happy to listen and eat the delicious dishes set in front of us.When we were done eating, I thanked her for pulling me out of the office, and we agreed we’d have dinner together again.“We’d need to pick a time when neither of us is too busy to leave the office,” I said, and she shook her head.“You’re always busy. When I see that you’ve been overworking yourself and need some time off, I’ll be here to pull you out of the office so you can see the world for a few hours.”“I might protest an
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ARLENE“You like Liam, don’t you?” Olivia asked as we made our way out of the office.She had stopped by to convince me to take a break. I protested, insisting I still had a lot to get done, but after a series of pleas and some very salient points on why I needed to rest, I gave in.I took a few minutes to jot down some notes for the next day. I thought making her wait while I organized my table and scribbled reminders would make her impatient and reschedule dinner—but she didn’t budge.That was my cue that this dinner was happening regardless of anything I did to stall it, so I gave in.I also needed to stop by the house to grab a document I had to review before the next meeting, so I didn’t mind leaving early.The plan was to grab dinner with Olivia, stop by the house, retrieve what I needed, and be out of there as quickly as I had walked in.To be fair, that had been my routine ever since Cole decided my family’s house was more “conducive” than a hotel room—even after I made it cle
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