Zillionaire's Darling: My Spectacular Life After Divorce

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, ointment coated the back of her hand, and dark re

across her back, where she had only recently

he ceiling as her mind

conscious. "You've finally woken up. Your blood pressure was already dangerously low when you we

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occupied every c

been there

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into her palms through the

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someone pushed

ack suit entered with

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to you as well." When Emma made no attempt to accept it, Marc contin

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himself. Nor had he asked her wh

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ut, Ms. Stevens,

told you. I wo

w firmly she'd made up her mind, he tucked away

im, leaving the hospital

he movement strained the wounds on her back, and

emories from three years

Austin out of harm's way, and the impact

asked in a shaking voice, "E

till ringing, yet she had smiled anyw

had taken he

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mained courteous yet distant. Even sharing intimacy wit

emotional distance was s

gh time together, she would eventually

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ent such a long ti

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she prepared to set her phone aside, a sudden

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in pain? Would you l

ole body

ed Austin down the hallway. He was holding Sadie by the shoulder

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nst his chest. "Austin, I'm fine no

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rom Sadie to make him abandon everyt

loved and being unloved had

held on to a marriage

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and held her fingers p

tered her message one word at a time.

considered it and deleted the messag

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