My Best Friend's Dad Married Me

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ed. The weight was gone, and so was the r

chance, but I simply slipped my arm through the

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I'd been secretly in love with for five long ye

something, even asking about my preferences more than once. I let

s and arrived early, nerve

ging to Miles's arm, her body ang

d up like this... Don't tell me you

iously think Miles would ever choose yo

y. "Don't say that. Lydia is techni

usly at all. If anything,

ad for years. Mafi

e's a princess

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licker of irritation an

s expression softening as he leaned i

needle had pi

the bold, passionate proposal. None

lown who had wandered into

ly remained where I stood, refusi

nfully

e would protect me for life was now kneeli

chest made it h

estion him. Compared to the radiant, con

to one knee before her, I

d, I realized I h

me

a's taunts, and the servants' whispe

in a daze until my best

He knew you liked him. He led you on for so lo

my behalf and insis

way. Stay at my place. No point goin

me. All the humiliation and grief I ha

onflict. Before he passed, he entrusted me to th

my strongest shield. For se

g the way, I fell

ged them, but he never rejected me either. In fact, he often

me deliberately, weaving lies and

g her over me. A

, he surrendered

sinking into the haze of heartbreak. I

ie couldn't stand it anymore. She dragged m

weight because of the medication when you were sick. Now that you've slimmed down a little, you

n and worn, but my body was no longer as heavy as befo

s. In just one month, I had red

Did that mean I coul

ardened. I would liv

Even if he regrets it, we don't want

She swore she would help me glow up

dards. Rich, good-looking, disciplined. If it weren'

she became, the fa

ther was the curren

lives in his hands. Even with a hundred times more c

dragged me out f

glass, my head wa

better. Before long, she ran

n the table alone

ng bold now? Over one text message, how

almost see Miles frowning with

ou that she's gotten sick. Come hom

phone until my fingers we

him. But the moment Tessa pretended to be sic

my chest, followed

'm not co

s been obedient, to defy him like this. He let

you're so capable. But don't forget, your

verage was his usual tactic. But th

soon. After that, my father's esta

ace was already

uddenly appeared

ed a man had been

es, and his presence w

past reason. A reckless t

you ma

led. He said nothing

e thought I

"A woman like me, fat and unattrac

e willing to marr

yet it struck my

. In an instant,

saw his fa

ominic S

odfather. And Annie

less. My thoughts we

knew, I was sitti

air, and the alcohol c

source of warmth and leaned in. He push

clung to him l

y heard

you even kn

nded gently ag