The Truth Set Her Free

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set of pearl earrings on her dresser, a

he polished surfaces

lt like

ossed them inside, buryin

wear his gi

iam to offer her the car, she left early and too

vanced architectural textbooks, books

and crowded, bu

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brary, losing herself in comple

en she finally left, her

he bus stop, she passe

the window,

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anything she had ever felt b

the betrayal, it was another

walk for a moment, the heavy

y resolve, she pushe

the door chimed, an

hed, replaced by a

d, a flicker of pan

stammered, scram

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ibrary," she said, her

table and set the heavy b

you doing

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it's a wo

ping me with

c, so insulting, that

composure, put on he

looks like," she said, he

grabbing a q

nor asked, her gaze sw

ty wine glasses and the re

more than co

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making a

sked, pulling

nd was resting near a shoppin

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face f

iam's voice was lo

acting

me and talk

rose, drawing the atten

a date with his 'cousin' after he l

I'm the

a mask of fury

of the situation,

s panicked eyes, and she fel

was

done with the humili

out of the cafe, leaving him and Chloe sitti

n't loo

eps light, the weight of her sham