Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 2

"Do you want to my wife?" He always knew what she wanted but never offered it freely.

Murray offered, "I'll have my driver take you home."

"No need. I've called an Uber."

Cliff intervened, "Roseanne, let me walk you to the door."

Roseanne waved him off and turned to leave.

"Murray, look at the mess... I think Roseanne is genuinely upset this time."

"Nah, it's nothing."

"Exactly! How many times have they had a spat? And every time, Roseanne returned after a few days, acting like nothing was wrong at the next party."

"I bet five days."

"I say six."

left ajar, his smile tinged with coldness. "I bet three hours tops. She'll come running back to

world knows Roseanne is madly in

why can't any woman be that

"You? Dream on, pal!"

burst

past midnight, Roseanne took

left,

full of unworn designer clothes, the

Luckily, Roseanne had the content memorized. The medium was

over to open a drawer. Inside was a check for seventy million dollars. Beneath the check was a contract for the property transfer at 72 Eastwood Acres. Despite being in the suburbs, it was conservatively worth twenty million. Murray signed both items during a previous breakup scare and tucked them away in the drawer,

Roseanne felt it wasn't a loss. How many women could claim their youth was worth that much? She packed both items into

he gives me?

heroine from a romance novel who

Do you

big clean-up. I'll pay

the keys in the foyer, Roseanne got into the taxi, heading straight for

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