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of contracts official, legal. Verdane Corporation. My eyes skim over lin
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the wor
rights... temporary transfer of control to Isabelle Mo
nd tr
ell is this
a moment. When he does, hi
me a short-term merger with Verdane Corp that would ensure a billion-dollar expa
up, s
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any from going under. Verdane had patents we needed, tech that would've crushed
t to
me. Worse, he signed a contract agreeing to it
ght to tell me?" I
in that world of deals and blackmail and threats.
wrong,"
it. My entire body shakes rage, heartbreak
You could've let me in. But instead, you
o happen like that," he
was accidental. You chose money. You
o fix it. I tried to pull out of the dea
hy didn
he snaps, eyes blazing. "She knew your weaknesses, R
til
her?" I
funded her treatments. She told me if I didn't file
th goe
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. That's the one thing
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our marriage, about its en
just thr
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me wishes he'd
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barely above a whisper. "I built
ws hard.
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oser. "Then
mine, soft but el
r stopped loving you, Rita. Even
s mouth didn't five years
don't get to say that. Not
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my m
lows, empty beds, and unsigned lett
it," I say coldl
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't be pla
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, it's no
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