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What Sloan didn\u2019t know\u2014what nobody in that room knew\u2014was that I signed the deed to this hotel three years ago.<\/p>\n

The Monarch Hotel.<\/p>\n

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Every chandelier above her head. Every piece of silverware she was eating with. Every square inch of Italian marble beneath her overpriced heels.<\/p>\n

It all belonged to me.<\/p>\n

And by the end of tonight, that whisper was going to cost her everything she ever wanted.<\/p>\n

My name is Bethany Burns. I\u2019m thirty-one years old, and I grew up in Milbrook, Pennsylvania\u2014a town so small the only \u201ctraffic jam\u201d we ever had was when old Mr. Henderson\u2019s cows escaped and blocked Main Street for three hours.<\/p>\n

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What Sloan didn\u2019t know\u2014what nobody in that room knew\u2014was that I signed the deed to this hotel three years ago. The Monarch Hotel. Every chandelier above her head. Every piece of silverware she was eating with. Every square inch of Italian marble beneath her overpriced heels. It all belonged to me. And by the end…<\/p>\n

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