He Chose The Mistress, Losing His True Queen

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right now," the caption read.

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me because he saved

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was out celebrating his ba

the empty house and the melted w

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n who loved him

pte

ery

de the hollowed-out core of *The Odyssey*,

that shattered my world:

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se of the mahogany dinner

, he was slicing into his rare steak with the same su

iled

the Commission he was a civilized businessman, rather than a b

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nd that used to make my toes curl

as l

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his GPS signal had be

been at

t Side, a property I had personally purchased through a

tect of the Wig

dering schemes that transmuted cocaine

that kept the FBI out and t

ng car wreck ten years ago, the genius girl

osed to be

uice pool on his china plate, I

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s could b

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text f

o this

it contained, but the masochistic urge

and mechanical as I walked to the bathro

nd sank onto the ed

ed the

, but the voices

nctional," Bren

he speaker, yet clear as a

and the house, Kiya

reflection in t

woman he h

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he point o

silence-was the only re

his secrets

d out of his Egyp

hen he came home smelling of

a ch

woman I had treated

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breach of

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eed to my life simply bec

ment to his own power: pe

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at had escaped my eye, sme

dn't

n't s

er me-the same icy mindset I used when I was restruct

ed my

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to the dining ro

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his unborn bastard, I was already calculating the l

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scape

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