Forbidden Dark Vows: A Forced Proximity Billionaire Dark Romance by VIVY SKYS

Author:VIVY SKYS [SKYS, VIVY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

I stay in the office until late, the city streets coming alive with the nighttime ritual of people flocking to wine bars, nightclubs, and strip joints for their next fix, sexual or otherwise. With Carlos taking care of the bigger issues, I’ve managed to trawl through the rest of the paperwork that was sitting on my desk, and now, with the lonely night ahead of me, I don’t want to be here without Ruby.

I don’t need to be here without Ruby.

I could take the next flight out of New York City and be in Chicago by midnight. I won’t disturb Ruby after the day she has had, but at least we will be in the same city, breathing the same air, and gazing up at the same stars.

Before I can stand up and grab my suit jacket, the phone rings. It’s a direct call, bypassing Lizzie. I pick it up and swivel my chair around to face the window.

“Mr. Weiss. I have some information that might interest you.”

I’m on my feet, dragging the telephone cable with me, my pulse thrumming as I eagerly anticipate this new information that I requested. “Have you found her?”

“I have a lead that checks out so far. I’ll fax some images through to you now.”

“Where is she?”

“Diablo Lake, Washington State.”

“Diablo Lake? What is she doing there?”

I had instructed a Private Investigator to locate my sister when I made my first million. A gift to myself. After years of not knowing what happened to her, I hoped that if we couldn’t be reunited, it would at least bring me closure.

It was three months before he caught his first lead in a medical clinic in Florida. My sister was working there as a nurse under an alias with a fake ID. By the time my flight landed the following day, the woman had disappeared, leaving behind no forwarding address.

That was the first lead.

Every other lead has been the same—my sister always one step ahead of me— like she’s paying the same PI to tip her off each time he gives me a lead to follow.

“She’s working at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.”

The fax machine trundles to life, and I wait for the images to print off. Blurry, they are of a woman who vaguely resembles my sister, with hair cut into a short bob and dyed blond. I often wonder if I would even recognize her after all these years, and studying the photographs now, I can’t be certain that I would.

I thank the PI and end the call, staring at the vague images. I hold the same debate in my head every time: do I follow it up, chasing the illusion of my sister Melanie around the country, or do I ignore it? I already know the answer.

I have enough guilt to live with.

I make another call first though. I get put through to the ward where Graham Jackson is currently being treated and ask to speak to his daughter.

It’s several long minutes before Ruby comes to the phone, and when she does, her voice makes my heart jump.

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