Too Late: The Don Begs Forgiveness

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exit, I heard him laughing w

neered. "The certificate is

ittaney faked an injury to frame me, K

nd ankles to the to

my shoulder dislocated, leaving me brok

t know his mother would smuggle me onto

aden was rotting in a Supermax prison, betrayed b

sits on my des

cancer, and he has lef

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finally learned that he threw away

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brating through the heavy s

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s a v

the marble floor cold

rs. Barnes. I am co

nally

son," I continued, my voice devoid

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up her tea, the chi

she said. "That is not a c

age," I co

the canary he crushes

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Ice

de Kaden Barnes while he ruled

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while his mistresses w

ced down my throat because he wouldn't let

rs weren't whi

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. They say he respects a stripper more than th

set the cu

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countered. "And it is drown

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s calc

care about

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on in offshore accounts," s

l endure. That is what

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a price, Harl

ty la

left t

her voice devoid of emotion.

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cross the gravel driveway, the back of

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heard

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velvet rumble, the sound that used to make

at piece of pa

against the cold

mean?" Brit

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after my father died. We faked the regis

tilted o

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from the sudden shift of weight that

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no b

le floor, landing direc

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as perfectly fine, and turn her tear-filled

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u dare to