lOne Victoria Wynne reached for the roll of plans on the shelf behind her. Her sleek black hair, done in its usual French braid for the office, shone with a rich sheen beneath the artificial light of the drafting table. Sun poured in the floor-to-ceiling windows behind her, casting shadows over fine-boned features and dark sapphire eyes. She was leggy with a willowy figure that any woman would envy. Many had called her beauti- ful in college, but she had rarely noticed. She had been too busy taking her degree in landscape architecture and, later, too determined to climb to the top of her I profession, a goal that had been interrupted with marriage to George Wynne. T~e disaster, Cord Darcourte had called it when Victoria s life had taken a new turn and she had be- come a wife. Victoria didn t believe in doing things
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