From Ruin to Radiance

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n flared. "You actually found Ros

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eyes dark with obsession and pain. "

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t words, cold and fina

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way and s

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or I cut every cent

is door before and

resolve in his

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e, Nora knew that the divorce

he and Ethan would no lon

would not see her tear

wet spots, something fli

d and trembling, looked nothi

ps tight, said no

ed back to

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found her hand crimson.

a doctor who scolded whil

w her wedding ring lying on the blank

as she snatche

had changed her mind, she

oor and saw Ethan seated on t

, "You can keep her somewhere else. Wh

whispered, "Hide her better, I

the threshold. "Nora, wha

rode to Ethan, eyes

sed out a sentence like a kni

her like ice water, da