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still in the air and Martha was out buying grocerie
in the living room, I headed straight into the stu
andwritten manuscripts of my early medical papers, and
ant's NHL trophies and framed photos of Jaiden on the ice. There wasn't a single
e marble vanity, where my seven-year anniversary diamond ri
five platinum supplementary credit c
would force me to crawl back to him,
the drawer and sliced straight through the chips
out to the foyer, dropped my last spare metal key into the brass
pad, I entered my passcode and
permanently erased. I turned around and wal
Norto
. I stepped out into the penthouse foyer with Candice, who was c
ted me after road trips, the three-thousand-square-foot duplex was plunged in
and fresh orange juice?" Jaiden yelled, throwing his
he marble island was completely bare, the stove
mping his foot. "Mom isn't here!
y and pushed open the master bedroom door
s completely bare. On the center of the marble vanity, the sev
and all five of her platinum supplementary credit cards-each one
hind me, covering her
whispered pitifully. "Leaving her wedding ring and cutting up yo
ards, a wave of fury surged into my chest.
I laughed coldly, clenching my jaw. "Without a cent to h
oceries-to make dinner for Candice and a crying Jaiden, then drove straight to
ce, my executive assistant was nervously sorting through
ntracts sat a brown Fe
, tossing my keys onto the desk
," my assistant said quickly. "The sender line says 'E
and cut-up cards on the vanity, and now she sends a dramatic package straight to my office
pen the flap, my office door
ons marched in, slamming
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nstantly. I slammed my palm on the desk and stood up, getting into a fierce
th frustration. My gaze fell back on the brown FedEx envelope fro
traight onto my tr
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e for her attenti
h a pile of useless flyers, yanked open the bottom drawer of my heavy oak
ged, a knock sounded a
lowed hard and lo
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