Discarded Wife: The Shadow Strategist Returns

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op sign, but a deep, blood-red velvet that sw

of my back. To the world, we were the power couple of the underw

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said, flashing a smi

r. She was wearing white. Of course she was. Inn

dn't even flick to me; they were glued

social protocol of greeting the wif

ntly. He stepped toward her, a magne

ice dropped an octave. It was the voic

elvet box. "For you," he said to me, but his

ary was thre

delicate silver chain with a butterfl

it for her and gotten the boxes mixed up, o

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hed out, her fingers lingering on Craig'

l of venom. She knew. She knew every

nel turned, her movements exaggerated, and her

tered. Win

. A crimson stain blossomed acro

ack, pointing a manicured finger at me.

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I was standing

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didn't look at the witnesses. He loo

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, I di

oed in the silent hall. "You're embarra

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pace, looming over me, using his heigh

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chin. "I won't apologize f

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he warned, his voice low and

ce ringing clear and loud. "Why should I apo

m the crowd

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nd las

e. I fell to the marble floor.

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and still raised. He looked shocked at his o

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erical," he

d yanked the wedding ring off my finger.

it to wear th

nd placed the ring-my ring, the ring he

," he sai

Like I was trash.

he ring to her chest. She smirked. It wa

sie," she

d out of the crowd. He looked at me on the floor,

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d at it, I rea

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weight of being Mrs.

sed around the butterfly necklace he had

l bent, until the butterfly's wing

was cla

zy anymore.

legs were sha

nd. I looked around the room. I looked at the faces

every single

in the cage anymor

ed out. I didn't

t, leaving the blood o