THE EX-WIFE HE NEVER DESERVED

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broken girl from five years ago. There was no sign of weakness or fear. She smiled and answered every question with the right amount of charm and authority. But

ought. Eli, on the other hand, was different. Something dangerous was in the air around her that she could not say. There

ing about what we said over and over again. Too many times, she practiced what she said and how she answered. She seemed t

e my report, and it was almost time for the evening news. I had to learn more about Eli B

s or traces of her past. It was like she had erased herself and all the connections she had made in her life before she "died." That was all I could find. An old police report made a small

about this?" I

ut she seems strange." Whatever happened is no longe

y attention to it. I had to find out mo

trange places, like on an empty house, in a transfer of assets from an old family estate, and in some legal papers I could not quite understand. I had more qu

why she had come back. The schedule did not make sense. Something was missing from my sto

ut them that made me feel uneasy. The woman's eyes looked like they had seen too much. She was a woman who h

hen the ca

er, I answered it anyway. My intere

, "Ms. Santos." "The place wher

old. "Wh

know who you want." You will feel b

is new piece of the puzzle, I could feel the th

li Blake is not who she says she is," She is dangerous. You will end up d

cing, I was not scared. It was looking forward. This was the key I had been loo

e frustrated. Too many pieces were missing or there were too many gaps. Her supposed death five years ago mean

d Elara Blake's name on it. A small thing that I had not noticed at first. It was a long str

me yo

aniel D

Blake-no, Elara Blake-had a link to her past through Daniel Donovan. So

. Not far enough from something dark.

s too late

much bigger story. I was not the on