nd I, ten years married today. I sipped my coffee, the expensive kind he
avel in the drive
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nant. It'
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tapped the screen. Photos. Ethan, n
id. "He wants this ba
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g Innovatech, Ethan's startup, when it was nearly dead. My inheritance, gone. My father's c
e now, Sarah
s were cold
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saw Chloe, then me, then the
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me, his voice
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and. Innovatech is huge now
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the words tasting like a
ensive edge. "Things haven't been... right between us
tried to t
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he was trying to
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baby. He told me you'd unders
everything. My youth, my m
a physical weig
then back to me, a pathetic a
o hurt you this
ng to Chloe's belly. Tha
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