Marrying The Enemy: My Ex's Worst Nightmare

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nights he had spent in that very room with me,

servants' quar

hallway light, a silhouett

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ling

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, a muscle feathe

cause I allow it. You are a charit

mming the door hard eno

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dragged the duffel ba

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ck the diam

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backs I had smuggl

d my to

kening jolt: after a decade in th

out my bu

led slightly as

an friend of my mother's who li

he answered on

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pany them to a café

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a lovely ceremony," I

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