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Chapter Seventy Eight

Author: Pinky-pen
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Chapter Seventy Eight

POV: Reuel Ashton

I had not planned on feeling anything about tonight.

That was the honest truth of it and I was always honest with myself in private even when I was performing something else entirely in public, and the honest truth was that I had walked into that clearing with the contract in my pocket and my pride fully intact and my agenda completely clear and somewhere between watching her walk in on my arm in that silver dress and watching her turn away from me and s
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