Five Years Of Lies: The Wife's Awakening

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t I overheard my future father-i

la forever. If this comes

in the air lik

I found a tuition bill for a prestigious kinderga

control worker and infiltra

a massive mansion, I

t. It was a commis

with his arm around a beautiful wom

d: *Our Happy

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in front of five hundred of Manhattan's

signaled th

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played the

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lass of champagne, when I realized my perfect life was actu

er, Ivan had wrapped h

ear that I was the most b

van, had beamed at us like we were th

nt a lifetime on the outside look

ng for a place to land, and the

but tonight I didn't feel like a scholarship stu

," Eleanor said, handin

acelet that probably cost more

," Richard added, patting my shoul

hat warm, sticky sensation of p

oom, needing a moment to collect myself before I st

led sounds of the jazz band fad

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slightl

heard the tone of Richard's v

arm, fatherly b

sharp.

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fr

ver the doorknob,

but frantic. "It has been five years. If this

ing impatient,

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t know

stays quiet, she gets the money. Ivan is marrying A

hitched in

silent on the plush carpet as

the party, my heart hammering ag

by the bar a

perfect smile that had made me fall in lo

ed my f

but a sudden chill r

him, really

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" he asked, ti

ired,"

rst lie I had

in bed next to him, I

shifting shadows

ed in my head

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m, a faceless woman stood at the end of the bed