od there, fro

into that room, to interrupt them, to drag Ava away from the ot

would no

exander

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t to start tha

ev

big day, someone who had started to select dresses, one for the ceremony and one for the reception, may

large number of guests that were getting

she was planning to make it the wedding of the decade, causing his father to raise a brow a

hat slept next to hi

the fir

Was Charles the only one

gusted, fel

d and silent, not even breathing, while he watched with wide eyes his wife to

door and turned around, leaning against the door

could not allow his emotions to get th

lf from the door and grabbed a drink from a waiter that was just passing

front desk, where a young woman was doing her job, typing some

, Sir, how ca

as soon as pos

no

ll call a taxi, but it will take

the waiting time will be at

home with his mate now and no matter how much he wanted to get away from here, he could not brin

d," he replied, be

ait at

een chairs in front of the bar a moment later, and ordered a

ake small talk to guests, and usually, he would have ign

ook another large gulp of the co

ly is a mess, and then...

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ed up and r

he emptied the large beer glass at

u should be drin

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t that Xander paid in cash for and emptied in minutes, his

t Ava and Charles were maybe still together, doing...that... it made hi

o feel, and he would get through this, he would not let this

aking sense anymore. Instead of plans for a future, there w

and looked shortly around, and found the sign leading to the r

a melody that suddenly was on his mind, thinking about some of the thin

hen he saw another person in

ing there, but then he recognized one of the waiters from the party, t

t casually, against one of the do

voice melodic and sof

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ave no

n again, feeling robbed of his ab

er honey-colored hair

breath