ROSE'S POV "Are you okay?" Desmond leans in, the alcohol stench from his mouth nearly suffocating me. "I'm fine." He stands suddenly, lifting me with him. He smiles sourly to the other guests. "Excuse us." "Hey, easy." I try to fight him off. He roughly drags me out of the hall—all the while my eyes are searching the crowd for Monique or Ryan's assistant—down the hallway, he looks around discreetly, kicks open the door to a closet, and shoves us both inside, locking it afterwards. Now, I'm seriously regretting why I didn't call Micah or Ryan. "Shhh. Don't try to create a scene, okay?" He redraws a flat folder from the breast pocket of his suit; he holds it high above my head. "You see this? I've got a million copies of it saved on my system, my flash drives, and even hard copies littering my study. And in it's the evidence of Ryan's money laundering. I can make it public, but I won't if you do as I say. If not, I'll destroy him." He sets the file back into the inner pocket of
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