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Nastiness dripped from every word Jackson uttered But Clio held off the impulse to instantly scan the crowd for Stefan

This had begun with Stefan at her side, true, but it was high ti her shoulders, she turned around

His aze over her with such disdain that sweat pooled over her skin

“Don’t make a scene, Jackson”

“Oh, come on, Clio After that entrance, after that clip of you crawling all over him out there for the world to seeafter you juh, you disgust me”

That he could think all that of her, that he could say it to her face stunned Clio

“You’re the one who’s been fooling me forout of her iven herself about not betraying what she had seen flew out Her throat felt like there was glass stuck in it and she had to remind herself that it was not her shame

“God, you had sex with Ashley and you laughed at me with her”

Soone in a nanosecond, a calculating look e in his features “So that’s what this is about? Payback? You think you’ll dangle yourself on his arm andback to you and beg for forgiveness?”

His gaze took in her designer dress, her upswept hair, the dia about her

Venoaze “Of course it is Why else would a red-blooded Sicilian like Bianco, who’s known to never date a woman for more than a week, want to marry you of all the women on the planet?”

For the first ti his assistant, Clio was filled with molten fury unlike she had ever known

It was cleansing, it was invigorating and it burned any re doubt that somehow, it had been her fault

She had done nothing wrong except for trusting a deceptive man with not an ounce of honor

“You have pushed me beyond my limits already but be careful what you say about him Stefan already doesn’t have much of an opinion about you”

“You stupid whore,” he spat out, fear and so his well-et to me?”