Hold Me in Contempt

by Wendy Williams

  After the plane sped up and kicked off from the earth, I looked down at blue flashing lights rolling down the highway toward Teterboro.

  “Say good-bye to the big city,” the pilot said over the intercom. “Paradise awaits.”

  Acknowledgments

  To Kevin Hunter and Jill Ramsey, my business partners. Thank you for your patience and understanding. To my father, thank you for giving me your love of books. Both reading them and writing them. To Mommy, for giving me my zest for life and a fertile imagination. And finally to my son, Kevin. You’re my special gift from God. We begged for you! You’re smart, intuitive, and insightful. Thank you for being you. I love you very much!

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  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  HOLD ME IN CONTEMPT. Copyright © 2014 by Wendy Williams. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Designed by Diahann Sturge

  ISBN 978-0-06-226841-9

  EPUB Edition April 2014 ISBN 9780062268433

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