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Chapter 9

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The silence that followed had been deafening. He had looked down at me with an expression I couldn't forget. Coldness.

He left the country the next morning, skipping the wedding entirely. I had spent the last three years telling myself it was a fluke, a trick of the senses and very improper of me
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