Married To My Bully's Father

ack seat of the black car as drops traced slow, lazy trails down the wind

morning. His silence was neither hostile nor kind. It was just... empty. Professional. Like everything els

ic that whispered when she moved, clinging to her like obligation. No lace. No glitter.

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harp, speaking in a soft voice as she unrolled brushes and palettes and hairpins. She didn't ask questions. Just d

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felt too far

her chest, something would break open and spill out. But all she'd felt was quiet. Like grief right after the fu

uilding modern, tall, and completely unremarkable. Just

or a long time before the driv

avement in erratic rhythms, like the

just enough to keep it from dragging through puddles. The co

ople passed in the hallways, but no one looked her way. N

, somehow, made the

hallway, a door

woman who looked like she hadn't had a break all

e. Just a black tailored suit and a steel watch that probably cost more than her ch

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read aloud like it be

read from

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replied.

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simple platinum bands. No engraving. No diamond

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n had lightened,

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