My Dead Husband Returned With Another Woman

casket for my husband, I found him a

t belly, smiling a soft smile I had

ecome "Arthur," a gentle man with no memory of

piness, I swallowe

" I told his preg

ing the torture of watching him give her

was rewarded

unfamiliar eyes and slapped

id of emotion. "I want to marry Mia befo

of a heart defect caused by

eeks not for money, but because I

line arrived, taking the se

t grazed his temple during an ambush

He remembered our blood oath. He

ng my name, blood pouring down his fa

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you every sing

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, a blurred photo on a burner phone had driven me five hundred miles into the mi

med beneath me, a low vibration

, his knuckles stark white aga

om a grocery store in a town that d

ple left their doors unlocked beca

ainst my ribs in a f

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f me, a constant reminder of the day the Chi

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to the automatic d

the air in the car s

walk

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arehouse in Bratva territory ju

and placed them on spikes to

ring a fla

the familiar ink on his forearms, bu

two paper bags fi

ned hi

his jaw, the same jaw I used to tra

n't sc

s smi

hat I had never seen in the

alked out

wheat and a face that had never seen

rested on the swe

ing to him, and

the glass, but the sight of it t

the bags

free hand and placed i

n and kissed

new broke fingers for

afraid the wind might blow

ion bl

ourned for three

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