For the past few weeks, she’s slept sitting upright, falling in and out of consciousness.Īt twelve, death was an abstract concept to me. The cancer had spread to her lungs, liver, and kidneys, making it excruciating for my aunt to breathe. I soaked her hospital gown with tears, clutching the fabric in my little fists, ignoring Momma’s soft pleas to get off her ill sister. With the sound of my soul shattering on the hospice floor like delicate china.Īnd Auntie Tilda, wilting inside her hospital bed, her breath rattling in her empty lungs like a penny. The flower is known to be poisonous to the touch and deadly to consume.Īnd, like the mythological goddess Persephone, it only blossoms in spring. It is also referred to as the heart flower or as lady-in-bath.

The bleeding heart is a pink and white flower that bears a striking resemblance to the conventional heart shape. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: “Red Right Hand” White Stripes: “Hardest Button to Button” He is about to find out the most lethal poison is also the sweetest. He thinks I’ll buckle under the weight of his mind games. Persephone wasn’t only the goddess of spring she was also the queen of death. Now I’m the eldest Fitzpatrick brother’s little toy. The price for the money, it turns out, is my freedom.

Only Cillian doesn’t hand out free favors. What’s a hundred grand to one of the wealthiest men in America, anyway? Bail me out of the mess my husband got me into. Now I need him to do me another, small solid. To me, he is the man who (reluctantly) saved my life. Hades in a Brioni suit.Ĭillian Fitzpatrick has been dubbed every wicked thing on planet earth. I will remain immune to Hunter Fitzpatrick's charm.Įven at the cost of losing everything I have.Įven at the cost of burning down his kingdom.Cruel. It's not like I'm in danger of falling in love with the appallingly gorgeous, charismatic gazillionaire who happens to be one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. I needed the public endorsement Hunter needed a nanny.īesides, what’s six months in the grand scheme of things? Little does she know, that's not the only pipe I'll be laying.īut the deal was too sweet to walk away from. The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family's oil company.

Now, my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston's nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It was just one of those unexplainable things. I didn't mean to star in a sex tape, okay? Boston's debauched elite is going up in flames, and it's the Fitzpatrick family that set it on fire.

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