After Divorce, I Married His Half-Brother

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ut the symptoms? The dizziness? The f

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hat could save my marriag

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hind my eyes. I tried to blink back t

, staring at me with

unsettling, while my emotions we

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ming, I wasn't going t

to constrict as I rubbed my palms

gnant..." He paused and his g

ut blinking, I pulled the shawl tigh

averted his gaze, scribbli

hot Saturday afternoon... yet there was a lar

that to you..." Doctor Adam said

words left

were nothing compared

rather endure Derek's

known nothing but how to cause me pain, I wanted to scream

he wall behind Doctor Adam. So

, "I think you should

echoed in

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..There's hope. It's an early stage of your c

pe

sounded li

, walking on eggshells and praying your husband doe

was no one to hold your

ach. Foolishly hoping some

to hope. But there wasn't

ant the tr

he dropped

y, my voice breaking. "Why fight for a

tried again in

air back quietly. "Thank y

h, then closed it

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heart and clouded thoughts, I

the building. One minute I was in his of

ve home but I wasn't seeing the road...just t

didn't t

me slowly and quietly...

would feel l

didn't say a word as I stepped out of the cab and headed stra

ng married to a Holland but they were all in sta

or. The first thing that caught my eye was a woman's purse

. Maybe I was imagining things but it was stil

discover the mess. Bright red lip glos

because I tried to be m

pair of black hee

s sister. Maybe

ents haven't visited sin

ing in my

" I cal

egan to climb the stairs, c

but it felt like I was walking

our matrimonial bedro

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ase. No

d the bedroom. My body kept moving forwa

y heart pounded so loudly I t

. God, you're

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good. Just li

giving me a little view of the peo

he gap, I

ni

saw my step-sister, naked, r

tened. Of cour

at my heart, makin

ose everything-Derek, my marriage,

just a shadow. A stand-in for my sist

s back. On top of my

ever had to fight for w