Love's Bitter Truth

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to stop her.

driven her car straight off the Decepti

d sympathetic looks from her wealthy, image-conscious parents

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our wedding. The last was from the day

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. They don't understand. They just gave me a life sentence with his shadow. Ethan looks a lit

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my cheek to keep from screaming. I closed my eyes and pretended it was Leo. It's

22,

say he killed himself. He wouldn't do that. He w

had been a lie. I wasn't her husband. I was a stand-in.

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