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CHAPTER SEVEN

I’m really just a regular guy who has had

an incredibly blessed life.

Bruce Willis.

The Lords’ luxury penthouse occupied the top floor of a skyscraper in a ritzy uptown neighborhood in the Upper East Side that overlooked Central Park. It was consisted by the two top floors of the sleek high-rise. Flashy gold trim and black leather furniture advertised their wealth.

The Louis XIV couch—which Dorian had been afraid to sit in when he first arrived in the Lords’ home for the fear that a museum guard would yell at him not to touch the exhibits—sat a beautiful wooden end table that looked to be as much an antique as the couch. It doubled as a cabinet, probably originally intended to store drinks or table linens or any of the kind.

An entire sitting room was given over to an entertainment center that included state-of-the-art CD and DVD players, shelves full of CDs and DVDs, half of which were of Dorian and Henry’s favorite music and movies, a plasma widescreen television, and two very comfortable chairs.

There were also two small rooms with much smaller windows providing the same view as the picture window in the foyer. Each room had a desk, computer station, fax machine,

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