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Damn her and her chilled, distant words Rafe hadn’t realized how h the mess that was his family “I should be back toh this”

She shook her head Destroying hiaze was riveted on the emotional path it traveled “If you want another mixer, you can contact Skyler”

“Fuck that, Hope,” he snapped “Stop it”

She took another step away

What the hell was happening between theht had been perfect And now…?

A knock on the door shattered the tense silence “Bell service, Ms Malloy!”

Rafe snarled, then shouted, “Go away!”

She walked around him to open the door

“Don’t Don’t do this”

Instead of responding, she infored to her She followed hilance

Rafe picked up a vase filled with beautiful fresh flowers and threw it against the wall, shattering it and his heart into a million shards

“Rafe?”

Exhausted, he glanced over at Travers, one of Celeste’s most trusted operatives Rafe had met the man a couple of times, and each time he’d been dressed the salasses His stealth was legendary, and until he’d made his presence known, Rafe hadn’t even known Travers had boarded the Lunar Sea According to Celeste, he’d cohy in order to surveil the harbor

Hoping Travers had found so, Rafe excused himself from his father In the past ten hours, Rafe had learned little This olf Rather than be bored with a bunch ofand drinking chane

When his father had returned, Lillibet couldn’t be found That wasn’t all that unusual She could have gone to theanother boat He’d called her cell phone and received no answer He’d strolled to theher Nor had any of their friends When he’d returned to the boat, he’d observed that a couple of her draere ajar A cursory search revealed that her clothing was there, but her jewelry was one Convinced that so horrible had happened to her, he’d contacted Celeste, then Rafe

Given what they knew about Lillibet not being who she appeared to be, Rafe illing to bet she had absconded with the goods herself Co so to his dad For the first ti about a woman could screith a man’s brain