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divorce paper

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s holding dangled from her fingers. Rebecca stopped smiling. Her e

this?"

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the papers in

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divorce,"

ers. He didn't take

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repeated. "I'm not ask

lau

ugh. The kind of laugh someone makes

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in his chair. He studied me like I

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t me. He lo

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ot a kin

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of emotion app

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aw the way his eyes lit up. I saw the way his l

ght he

was giving hi

as w

d that it was

God," s

ked a

nt smile. She walked to Ethan and

id. "I've been wa

ke Ethan sign the d

had given them wh

comp

waiting for me to be shocked. She was waiting

as emot

hat their betrayal

omething in Ethan's ear. I couldn'

sign it. So they

s still

eyes were soft. His e

bout this, Isab

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. Had I not witnessed his

girl. You don't know how the streets work. You'll be

at his

I would have thought he was being kind. I

I saw th

g to control me. He was trying to keep me clo

heir performance, I ha

not on

pocalypse

he was sitting on the couch. Her

ked t

gn the divorce papers. I have given him the company.

ooked

oc

ned. Closed.

. wh

or him to have it. For Sophia to have it. For you to be s

re searching. Looking for som

her

company," I said.

for a long moment

lling me

lin

ha

ce was cold. "Stop calling me mot

odd

adl

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it," s

oked

ut

ed. She has signed the company to you already.

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picked u

igne

papers acros

d. "You want o

the d

you,"

and wal

stairs to

oom I had shared with Ethan. The

at anything. I

acked a few of my cloth

s from the study. The hidde

the money I

etch me enough money to use for

hey did not

ldn't have allowed me

hem in

my box d

d looked at me l

recover

me back,"

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mil

ly,"

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I said. "Fo

t me. Confuse

phia. I looked

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tter thi

d out t

he house with the div

know was that I left

t I still had full ownersh

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the taxi that brought me home fro

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, ma'am?"

of a hotel. A quiet

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my phone. I o

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ded to do in the

the list:

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out the

buildings. Busy streets. Peopl

had n

I

fourte

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the note again. T

would be interest

second gift. I was in the