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If erotic asphyxiation were an Olympic event, Aubrey Davenport would have been a world-class contender Her brain was just on the threshold of losing consciousness when she released the death grip, and brought her feet back toward her buttocks
But the noose refused to relax If anything, it felt tighter Panic seized her She thrashed, pulled her hands up to her throat, and clawed at the silk, fighting for air and finding none
She never ed She reached behind her neck, desperately trying to find soers found his hand He jerked hard on the silk cord, and her arms flailed
She slu went black, and as the reaper stepped out of the darkness to claim her, tears streamed down her cheeks, because in the last seconds of her life, Aubrey Davenport finally realized that she didn’t want to die
THE COTILLION ROOM at The Pierre hotel bubbled over with New York’s wealthiest—including a feere wealthier than some countries
They were the richest of the rich, the ones who get invited to fifty-thousand-dollars-a-plate dinners when one of their oants to tap them for a worthy cause In this case, the charity with its hand out was the Silver Bullet Foundation
The thirty-foot-long banner at the front of the hall pro-clai for the less fortunate
Thetables in the rear had boiled when he first saw the sign They haven’t done shit for me, and I’m the least fortunate person in the room
They’re like swans, he thought as he watched theal, but fiercely territorial and vicious when they feel threatened And like swans, he observed, they are oh so white
He counted half a dozen black swans a them, but for the ht in
With his shoulders slulasses to dial down the intensity of his piercing black eyes, he was practically invisible, and definitely forgettable
The only human contact he’d had in t
he three hours since donning the uniform ith a besotted old patrician who’d slurred, “Hey fella, where’s the men’s room?”
Shortly after nine, the lights di voice of Jah the sound system
“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the cofounder and chairman of the Silver Bullet Foundation, Mr Princeton Wells”