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Chapter One
New York, March 1990
OF ALL THE THINGS HE'D DONE to her in the past, of all the things he
hadn't done or either might have or should have, his betrayal now
was the cruelest. Hillary Cox stared at the television screen long
after his image had faded. Her mind was nearly as blank, wiped clean
by disbelief, shock, and pain.
Sweeping the long auburn waves from her face, she turned and stared
at the carpet. But there were no answers to be found in the thick
crimson pile.
Engaged? John was engaged?
She swallowed hard. The remote control fell from her thighs to the
floor as she got up and wandered distractedly around the den. The
room wasn't large. Nor was the rest of her apartment, but it was the
best she could afford on Manhattan's Upper East Side, which was
where she wanted to live, where she wanted to be with John. She had
rented it as much to satisfy her own pride as to suit him. He was a
man of means. Someplace shabby would never have appealed to him.
If he'd given her money, she might have had a bigger place. But then
she would have felt more like a whore than she did now ... read full excerpt from Facets ebook
