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CHAPTER ONE
IT WAS GOING to be bad
Lilly Anderson winced and put a hand to her pounding head If she held herself in just that position, with the pressure building in her head like the vicious storms that picked up intensity across the plains of the raine
Might not
Except staying in the di-tiht She was late for her own divorce party Excessively late for the one thing that would give her what she wanted above all else Her freedom from her husband
“Oh, my God”
Her twin sister Alex made a sound low in her throat “How can they print this stuff?”
“What?”
“Nothing”
“Alex, read it to me”
“It’s Jay Kaiken’s column You don’t want me to”
“Read it”
“Okay, but I warned you” She cleared her throat “In what’s expected to be the most scandalous, juiciest, talked-about water cooler event of the season, billionaire wine irl-turned-sports-physiotherapist Lilly De Caested they were the only passionately in love couple left in New York But apparently even that fairytale doesn’t actually exist Rumors of heartthrob Riccardo’s infidelity surfaced and this once solid s that I bid this partnership adieu tonight I have the invite and will bring you all the salacious details”
She crumpled up the tabloid and threw it on the floor “He’s such an SOB”
Lilly closed her eyes, a fresh wave of nausea rolling over her No matter how many times she’d envisioned this moment, this freedom from Riccardo, she had never envisioned this Nor the insanely ht about now
“Sorry, Lil I shouldn’t have started on those”
“You’re a PR person, Alex You’re addicted”
“Still, I suck I’m really sorry”
Lilly sant enough—and in Riccardo’s most hated color, which was an added bonus—but it felt as if it was clinging in all the wrong places A glance in the mirror before they’d left had told her she was paper-white, with dark bags under her hazel eyes Haunted In fact the only thing that was right was her hair, blowdried to glossy, straight perfection by her savior of a stylist
It was a probleether She felt she was already at a disadvantage Facing Riccardo without her ood way to start
“You look a little too good,” Alexfrumpier on And maybe messed your hair up a bit”
Lilly took the co else, the bluntest person she’d ever met “Noould I do that?”
“Because Riccardo is like a banned substance for you,” her sister said drily “And your ly, Lilly, it’s the easiest way”
Lilly smiled, then winced as her head did another inside-out throb “He’s finally agreed to givea happy dance”
“If I thought he was giving in I iven you the papers yet?”
“I’ht”
Alex scowled “It’s not like hi”
Her heart dropped about a thousand feet “Maybe he’s decided it’s time to replace me”