She froze, reaching out instinctively to hold Nick. She needed that contact—needed to believe, even now, that he loved her.But Nick shoved her away again, his voice dropping into a dangerously calm, cryptic tone."The bait’s been out for so long. You finally bit."The words hit Lucy like a thunderclap. She scrambled to make sense of them, her mind racing through a dozen different scenarios, but none of them offered a logical escape."What does that mean, Nick?" she asked, her voice trembling as she sat paralyzed on the bed. "I... I don't understand.""You know exactly what it means, Lucy," Nick said, his voice as cold as a grave. "Everything we did was for this moment. To reel you in."Lucy’s confusion turned to dread. "'We'? Who else is there?"Nick gave a thin, shark-like smile. "Come on out."The hidden door to the suite’s inner room clicked open. A woman stepped out slowly, a high-end camera gripped in her hands.Lucy’s eyes nearly bulged out of her head. "Charlotte! What
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