s song, calling Eva back to a li

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nterference. Everything she'd once dreamed of. The

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quietly, "I... I need t

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said, voice trembling despite

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andestine meetings with f

g in her voice. "He's a colleague. He offered

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rom your past. The past that broke us. Th

wound ri

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ed coldly. The wall betwee

couldn't stay

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ial files, company records, anythin

of loans, mysterious inv

he fou

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ffshore accounts,

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and her relationship w

the truth hit her

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