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bags and dragged them off towa

ut the life here, within the walls of Chloe's apartment, was my

you hide an entire pregnancy and child

gnancy was that easy. The next challenge was hiding my growing belly. And all I had to do to solve that was

urned to the mansion six months later, Luna had been born. I made Chloe take full custody

front of me before taking he

finally being over," Chloe raised h

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n that I have nowhere else to be. But I left the papers on

crazy. God rest Arthur's soul,

et master who pulled all the strings and was still doing so from beyond the grave. But I couldn't

oblivious to our problems as we'd thought and he decided that legally bind

t even ten years

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off the stool. "You're going

rom her mug. She didn't

aline now, she might actually sl

p around the sofa and let out a breat

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requires a priority development fee. It's a crazy sum of m

playing. "Did she like the sch

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get her off

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, pulling up the master spreadsheet. "Once their fees clear, the

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