DECEPTION AND LIES

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air learnt that love is ju

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care about shou

hey met, they wer

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er believed in

r again, only to end up crying at the kitchen table, with th

aret Carter still loved like a fool-so blindly, so completely, that Eve grew up won

een, she had already pro

ith a man who didn't deserve i

while, s

but herself. She worked as a freelance illustrator, designing book covers and commis

y empty, and sometimes the loneliness crept

iting by the phone for so

n love so

met Caleb

ved about love-and about

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to believe that love was n

oliticians, smiled at cameras, and ruined people's lives before breakfas

re afraid to leave," his father us

never

fect wife, wearing silk dresses and diamonds like armor, smiling at charity galas wh

ars. The way she shrank herself to fit

n the house was silent. "Promise me you won't end up like

way his father had taught him to-with charm, power

could make women fall in love with a smile, win deals wit

e and currency to him

life and made him wonder what it

WORLDS

t believe

't believe

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hem would ever b

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