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"Money doesn’t buy happiness, Riley And we’ve already covered that it can’t buy love At the end of the day, I’m just a woman I can’t speak for all of theood life be?"

That idea hadn’t changed in the years since she’d first understood what the word family meant "Someone who loves me Soful I’ about fame I don’t care if anyone knoho I am I just want to make a difference I want to make other people’s lives better because I walked the earth I want to make the people who love uess it is, because I don’t see before he spoke "I hope you find it I caht now Look, Law doesn’t want you to watch this, but I think you should You’re strong enough to handle the truth Greg is holding press conferences and telling people you were taken He’s trying to make a case for you to return to him"

"Why?"

"Well, for starters, if you ainst hiht to protect her from It eet that he didn’t want her hurt or upset, but she needed to know She was quickly realizing that she wanted what these ive her Law offered utter devotion He would try to shield her with every ounce of his being Doed her He wanted her to be sht she could be

And Riley was an equal, who supposedly appreciated life and humor and the people he shared them with Which hy it hurt soon the opposite wall and changed the channel to a twenty-four- hour news network Greg’s face i a perfectly pressed suit as he spoke to the camera It didn’t look like he’d missed any sleep

"Someone took my fiancée I can only pray they treat her well She’sfor Kinley’s swift return"

A voice came from the audience "How do you reply to Kellan Kent’s assertion that Kinley Kohl is a runaway bride who fled your wedding with her lover?"

She had a lover? Oh, this story ayfrowned "My bride isn’t interested in lovers This is pure libel She’s an innocent Kinley is one of the world’s et a guy--or see when the one in front of her was trying to profit fro droned on "Kinley would never abandon her family without a word She values her loved ones and knows that her sister misses her That her father needs her I pray she’ll find a way to survive this becauseho her that saiven her when he’d offered to save her charity It made her feel dirty and selfish because she had to choose between throwing caution to the wind for what she wanted and whoring herself for the people who needed her

Becks was in the background, her face shining in the sunlight as she stood behind Greg She had on her best suit, the one that showed off the ten grand she’d spent on her boobs She kept her left side to the caood side It was so co to know her sister was concerned with how hot she looked on camera

Kinley loved her niece and nephew She’d never understood how Becks could send the, but it was all there in her sister’s plastic face The wo was deeply and profoundly wrong with Becks She washer heart, possessed an empty soul She didn’t care about anyone but herself

Same with her father

Her mother had been so lovely, but she’d accepted less than she’d deserved Would her mother have wanted her to do the sa to accept? How erminate in her head Law, Riley, and Dominic had kidnapped her…

"He sounds sy to press charges"

He turned his head "What?"

She’d decided that before she made her one escape When she’d been wrapped around Law’s body, his ar her close, she’d known she didn’t want freedom Freedom had kind of sucked because it couldn’t love you back "I’ hat Kellan said You were smart to involve hioing to take hio along with his cover story"

"You’re going to tell the press that you tookit off while you let Lahisk you away to a secluded lovers’ retreat?"

Why not? What did she have if she went ho care of people ould never thank her and alantdidn’t kill her first Here was a totally different tale Nice accoood food, sure Law had actually asked her for her preferences before they’d cooked dinner Dominic had even asked what kind of wine she’d like Before these guys, no one had ever given a daht about it, she was pretty sure Riley had been the one to pick her warone wild This sweater is a little scratchy"

He narrowed his blue eyes "It’s one hundred percent pure cashmere It can’t be scratchy"

Yes, Riley had picked her clothes with care, like she was ih a thing Dominic looked at her like he wanted to eat her up

And her fiancé? Thewith her sister and planning to murder her so he could take over her business

She’d played by the rules for far too long The rules hadn’t gotten her anywhere These ridiculous ideals had left her a virgin, completely and utterly alone They had placed her in a position where everyone lied to her Getting kidnapped had brought her clarity, shown her a place where at least a couple ofher pleasure

Pleasure was better than the nothing she’d had before

"Could you call Law and Do in her brain all day, a way for her to get so out of this Determination had replacedbeyond just getting to live and keeping her charity She wanted so for her

"Why?" Riley asked

"I want to talk to them" She didn’t want to explain it to Riley He wouldn’t understand He would probably be horrified But she hoped that Do iht her pleasure Doone cold only after she’d pulled away And Law had just been hurt