Dorothy flinched, ducking away from his imposing figure, “You know, Mr. Lopez, you’ve been throwing around ‘can’t’ and ‘don’t’ a lot lately!”

Everything seemed to be off-limits now!

He was setting rules at every turn and she didn’t remember him being this domineering before.

“It’s because you’ve been flirting left and right,” he accused.

“I have not!” she retorted without missing a beat.

Everett raised an eyebrow. “Then what about Kenneth?” he asked.

Silence.

“And what about Lane?”

More silence.

“While we’re on the subject, I still need to settle the score with him.”

Simply tearing down The Prosperity Consortium wasn’t nearly enough.

Dorothy glanced at him, neither pleading for Lane nor intending to.

crime,

danger, so how could Everett, her father, let it

didn’t have a shred of sympathy for Lane, but

kids away with Kenneth, mainly because she had

just too

week?” Everett didn’t give her a chance to back out. The sooner he picked up the kids, the better for him. He was eager to see his

having his kids cared for by a

“Your health…”

didn’t get his children back soon, that would be the least of his

non-negotiable tone, Dorothy sighed in resignation, “Then why you

just Kevin being

She knew it!

Karen was exhausted.

soundly that her parents, along with Kenneth, had reported her missing

eyes, the unfamiliar ceiling and room left her bewildered for a

doing here?!” Karen’s voice startled Jeffrey from his deep

draped around his waist, exposing his toned

it?” Jeffrey yawned, rubbing his tousled hair, and sat up looking confused like a teenager who still wanted to stay in

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