but I am not giving in to anything both of you had and signed

g. "I can't figure out how to make it clear to you. I b

ou have been spending money without me knowing. You used me as collateral to take a loan from a ve

vanished. Her father was attempting to rise from the be

to clarify

and informed me that I am the price. Those were his

e pressed he glanced at the bedsheet, the

ou known about t

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nths," sh

he money together before it came to this then you would

my name on a piece of paper and you looked me

ing to pro

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beside his bed and threw it across the room

s more,"

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arrangement with Dean. It w

at was i

mote from the side table and hurled it at the foot of the

was it

ean agreed to cancel the entire debt. Every cent. In exchange fo

om wen

ned. Her mom

w the broken remote on the floor. Looked at Ray

the collectors came. He had sat across from Dean Lance six months ago and signed her name on a marriage c

mo

s voice dropped low

opened h

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ked up

just listen to me her

d to l

he morning, continuing to walk because stopping meant she wo

her name on a m

r had put

our hours to decide

Neither at her mother calling her name, nor

he corridor and through the

hen she sa

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dow rol

e

ng on the bed who isn't even sure of survival," he sa

stopped

. "How do you mean you heard me sh

her. Nothing on

said. "That is wh

rove

not just collapsed around her in two days. Her father had signed her name on a marriage contract six months ago and said nothing. And the man whose name was on

because there was obviously no need to do

just

That is why I

embling, and for the first time, grasped pr

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