Donnie X April Novels & Stories

Skimming through the file’s content, I signed and give the file back. "Don, Ms. Charlotte just arrived with some man in her company." Trevor announced. "Handle the shipment." I told Julio and he nodded before leaving. "Who is the guy?" I asked turning my attention to Trevor while pinching the bridge of my nose. "A makeup artist, I think." he shrugged "You think." I quirked my eyebrow at him. "No boss, I'm sure, he's a makeup artist." He spoke quickly. "Why would she-" I started my sentence but paused when I remembered it was Friday, the launch party.

My husband, Lucien Moretti, had some last-minute trouble at the docks to deal with, so I had to attend the underground auction alone. I didn't expect to run into my ex, Damon Vesper—the man I was supposed to marry five years ago. The man who chose the woman who put my mother in a coma over me. The moment I raised my paddle for my mother's emerald brooch, he raised his against mine. The room laughed, whispered, sneered. They thought I was the same desperate fool chasing a man who'd never loved me. But I wasn't there for him. I was there for the truth—the truth hidden inside that brooch. The truth that would expose the accident that destroyed my family as the murder it always was. And when his