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Paige gave Giselle's hands a reassuring squeeze. "Don't worry. You're the only one I'll accept as Leo's wife."

After years of pining for Leo, Giselle had long outgrown the blushing schoolgirl routine.

Now her voice carried a note of melancholy. "But what if he never feels the same way?"

"Please. With me in your corner, who else could he possibly marry?"

Giselle threw her arms around Paige. "You're the best! I don't know what I'd do without you."

Paige stroked her cheek affectionately. "Sweetie, we're going to be family. This is what family does."

"But what about Carol?" Giselle's voice dropped with worry. "She's your niece, Leo's cousin. What if we never get along? I still don't understand why she pushed me into that pool."

The truth was, Giselle knew exactly what she'd done-she just didn't know the whole story.

At her birthday party, she'd made several snide remarks about Caroline's poor taste in men.

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She'd assumed they were all adults who understood consequences-that Caroline might be upset but would never actually do anything about it.

How wrong she'd been.

Besides, Giselle didn't know Caroline had lost her memory. She'd assumed their childhood grudges were water under the bridge, not realizing they'd become fresh wounds in Caroline's mind-making her dunking inevitable.

"Giselle," Paige said firmly, "you're going to be Leo's wife. I won't have you suffering in silence. You understand me?"

Their eyes met, and Giselle felt a surge of determination.

In her mind, Caroline only dared to attack her because she was the Ashbourne Group's heiress, untouchable and above

consequences.

After that birthday party, Giselle had become the laughingstock of their social circle.

She'd never been so humiliated in her entire life.

the Reeves family dragged through the mud alongside her, this was no longer just personal. This

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true you have a personal vendetta against Rebecca

crash just days ago. The police are calling you

dropped it? When they crush you at the box office, won't you

write the

you've got the Ashbourne Group

at Alistair from all directions,

this is what they mean by

the afternoon with Mabel at Ashbourne Manor until 3 pm, when exhaustion finally sent her to

decided to track down her attending physician from the

been ambushed halfway there by

circus.

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up a hand to his bodyguards-stay back-then raised

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down, he leaned toward the cluster of microphones with an easy smile. "Time will tell," he said simply. "That's all I have

he slipped back into the car and drove

Technologies, Caroline watched the footage of Alistair's video, frowning. "What the hell

Julian could respond, she added, "God, he looks good,

rolled

I'm here to watch her moon over her

employees had been slacking

and immediately reported it

company understood

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staff genuinely

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cover it-she had razor-sharp instincts and an almost supernatural business sense. Five companies,

Arrogant, even. She didn't schmooze or play politics, didn't seem

every single employee respected

old-timers had grumbled about taking orders from someone so young. One by one, she'd won them

were devoted. Other companies had tried poaching her

her completely and wore their association with her companies

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