75 Results in the "Saccharine" category
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Maven looked up briefly from her phone when Chloe came through the door. She made only a vague gesture toward Ben's office, like a traffic cop waving cars through. "He's waiting." "Thanks." It was strange how quickly she had gotten used to this office and meeting with her agent. As familiar as the school bus back in high school. Chloe shuddered briefly at the thought. Then she knocked and entered. Ben's desk was surprisingly messy, covered with printouts, spreadsheets, and highlighters around…-
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Chapter 53 – Penetration Test
The door handle moved. In the next two seconds, everything happened at once: Chloe made a decision, her stomach clenched painfully, and Chloe Heart took control of the steering wheel. When Ben opened the door, she was already standing, had turned away from the desk, and was beaming at him. "Ben! Is everything okay with your car?" He stepped inside and slammed the door behind him. "Yeah, yeah. Some kind of electrical fault, I had to disconnect the battery. That means Maven has to drive me home…-
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The zipper of the black dress slid up, and Chloe looked at the result in the mirror. Simple, practical, would disappear into a closet as soon as she arrived anyway. No reason to make an effort. She grabbed her handbag and checked its contents. Keys, cell phone, lipstick, a little cash just in case, the bare essentials. Everything else would be taken from her anyway. Elena's words from the Plaza echoed in her head. "Valeria is involved in more than most people realize." And: "Next time, Valeria will…
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Chapter 58 – Heart of the Party
Elena was standing at the edge of the crowd, a glass in her hand, looking for her. She was wearing a black dress with a low back, and her long black hair fell loosely over her shoulders. When she spotted Chloe, a warm smile spread across her face, which Chloe immediately returned. Her first genuine smile of the evening. Elena came over and pulled her into a hug. "Hey, superstar." Elena held her by the shoulders and looked her up and down. "You look outrageously good. Looks like you're building…-
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Chapter 59 – Daniel Walker
Chloe sat by the window, sunglasses perched on her nose, a double espresso in front of her and the remains of an avocado toast that had cost almost as much as a week of homemade lunches for a family of three. But it had been damn good, and every now and then she wanted to treat herself to something special. Chloe leaned back, sipped her espresso, legs casually crossed, and simply let her gaze wander through Bistro La Plaza. There was a movement at the window. Kayla, her colleague she'd met at the Velvet…-
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Chapter 50 – Morgan Blake
"Where did you get that?" Her voice sounded different now, no longer bubbly, but rougher. But there was still a smile on her face. The smile she had become so accustomed to that she didn't even notice when she faked it anymore, just lingered on her lips. Morgan watched her closely. "I researched Samantha's murder extensively back then," she said quietly. "I wrote more articles than my editors wanted. The case stayed with me, even after everyone else had long since moved on. I thought that if I…-
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Chapter 52 – Planning the Heist
"You hacked into Ben's system?" Morgan raised both hands. "Tried. I tried to hack into his system." Chloe stared at her. She sat on Morgan's worn-out sofa, her legs tucked under her. Morgan's notepad and two now-empty coffee cups were on the coffee table between them. "It didn't work." Morgan leaned back in her desk chair and ran both hands through her short dark hair. "And I failed. Miserably, if I'm honest." "How miserably?" "Four days wasted miserable. Four days in which I tried…-
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Chapter 46 – Impasse
The cursor blinked. Blinked. Blinked. Chloe stared at the screen as if she could force the words in her investigation document to make more sense through sheer willpower. Three days had passed since the party, during which she had read the same fragments over and over again, trying to read something else into them than what she feared they meant. Thompson. John. Logistics. Girls. Merchandise. Dubai. She scrolled up to her older entries. Then back down. Then up again. As if that would change…-
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Chapter 60 – Dirty Dreams
"Action!" Guido clapped his hands once, and suddenly everything was silent except for the almost inaudible hum of the cameras. The cameraman with the Steadicam moved closer to her. Daniel smiled at Chloe with that warm and somehow far too honest smile and took a step closer, placing a hand on her hip as if it were the most natural thing in the world, as if they did this every afternoon when he came home from work. His other hand brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. "Hey, beautiful," he…-
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Chapter 51 – We
"What did you find out?" Chloe took a deep breath. "Quite a bit. But a lot of it is fragments that I can't piece together. What do you have?" "Ladies first." Chloe snorted. "Not sure I'm much of a lady, but okay." Then she began to recount the results of her investigation, chronologically and step by step. About Ben Ziegler, Randy Miles, Valeria Cruz, and what went on at their parties, Elena Rodriguez, Trevor Knight, Madeline Stokes, Lucia DeVries, and Ethan Cooper. Morgan took notes…-
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