VeldanaBy two o'clock that afternoon, the front hall of the Crestview estate looked like a shipping dock.Four guards from Vanguard Security stood by the marble pillars with their arms folded.Fourteen suitcases, garment bags, and trunks were stacked along the stairs. They held every suit, watch, and cufflink Lincoln owned in this house.I sat in the sitting room sipping black tea while Julian Vance's paralegal checked the divorce papers on the glass table. Leo was across town with his nanny at a play center I had rented for the whole afternoon.The front doors banged open.Lincoln marched in with his jaw tight, his tie loose and his collar open. His mother and Jenny Hall followed him like a pair of buzzards.He had expected to find me in tears, ready to beg. Instead he saw four guards, two lawyers, and all his clothes packed by the door. He stared at the luggage, then at me."What is the meaning of this circus, Veldana?" he demanded. "You put guards at my gates? Do you know how this
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