BITTER-SWEET REVENGE

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aped in a stunning silver engagement

as I took an uns

isn't h

event host shattered

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sound slammed into m

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dug into

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your choic

as cold. Un

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sperate to see something-anything-in his eyes tha

re was

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s so hard my nails

er the music. "I dropped out of school. I worked three jobs. I sent you abroad with

s head, but his expressio

in my world, Ivana

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I turned and stormed

ugh the large double doors, the sound of

a knife, twisting deepe

now where

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esc

how I got to th

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ow crumpled. My makeup, once f

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the top buttons undone, giving

out him felt

breath I didn't

n't a

't seem

ying alone here?"

on shattered the

d down my face as

oked out. "He had nothing when I met him. I was the

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's found his gro

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expecting mockery, but his

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do that?" I a

into his pocket, pullin

, placing it beside me. "Thi

like that,

nto the night, leaving me alone with nothing but h

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printed in

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st name. No furt

to me not to tr

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