blur of forced smiles

, not the family heir

. His eyes kept straying to Brittany, wh

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through the p

King property, a note clutched in he

en pu

heartbreak, of how she couldn' t live knowing Ethan w

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terrifying rag

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me, publicl

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in our small town, was destroyed

all, the injust

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came a new,

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live that