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we were

towards

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supposed to mar

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our families. You were never told his

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hy he cam

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ked up

at her throat. All of it built on a lie

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-

waited until

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the pen and a

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her asking what she wanted to do with her life, and waiting for the answer

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sewed it back into the

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wake unti

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abella walked i

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happ

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. "His name is Alexander. I was sup

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found out what my inheritance would be after the marriage. So he went to the d

set her

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leaned

know you're his

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not hiding

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ed across and

change

her bag and slid a n

er knows. Every detail he migh

hy

is a man who was there first." Rachael tapped

picked up

d didn'

-

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wal

at her for

me this morning."

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did he

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wife doesn't

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wn into the lining, Alexander Blackwood's na

, she understood exact