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Chapter 1

Hunter

“There’s still tiel speaks in sonorous tones over my shoulder

I don’t takein the twenty thousand dollar Hero The fresh sers after a month of renovations I haven’t decided if I love it or hate it It reeks of new money The majority of my wealth has been accu class of New York isn’t io My check is welcome but I am not

That will all change with e to Rose Vandermeer, the Princess of Park Avenue Once she is on o unsent With one “I do,” the rest of New York high society will bend their knee because despite their lack ofclass since the Mayflower’s prow hit Cape Cod

It doesn’t hurt that the delectable raven-haired beauty sitting pri ood fortune to lay eyes upon It’s not the first time I’ve seen Rose, but it’s the first time we’ve been this close Her brother has kept her locked up in a figurative ivory tower in his penthouse apart her out only on a few occasions to feed the rabid interest about her

“Is being in my keep so -time friend and advisor who believes ain “Perhaps I a her a favor”

Rumor has it that she has had several offers of eirls college she attended upstate, but her brother, Garrick, has turned them all down on her behalf Froidly he is controlling her entire existence

“She’s a person No person can want to be bartered like a coin or a stock share”

“If he doesn’t sell her to me, he’ll sell her to someone else”

“Regardless, she is not going to look kindly upon the personthe purchase” She sits so silently, so still—as if she’s a picture rather than a huazine and flipping through it only to toss it down seconds later and reach for a new one After discarding his third ets up and approaches my secretary, Chris, with a request A minute later, the outer doors slide open and one of the staff lasses and a bottle of sparkling water Garrick eyes the water with disgust His addiction to booze and drugs has hi without a hit “If she stays er with him, he may harm her”