Reborn To Ruin My Betraying Fiancé

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than the pain. He knelt, his face appearing in the narrow gap between the concrete slabs that pinned her.

from the corner of his mouth, and he wipe

le not reaching his eyes. He tucked the

each for him, to grab the cuff of his jeans. Her fingers twitched,

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waist. Her hands flew to the bedsheets, clean and c

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ed out of bed, her bare knees hitting the poli

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e hit Seattle. Thirty days before

ragged, shallow bursts. Instinct, born from five years of starvation and injury, took

gged, infected wound had tormented her for we

ity table for support. Her legs felt like jell

fore. No sunken cheeks, no permanent fear etched into the lines

pure, agonizing relief. She bit down hard on her low

rol, her phone vibrated on the floor.

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to get those transfer papers sig

a bucket of ice water on the

eft her to die, superimposed itself ove

their future, only to be kicked out two weeks later when he sold it for cash. That house h

her chest. It was the memory of the rebar, a gh

Then another. She was an EMT. She

locking it away in a cold

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er furniture, the expensive electronics, the cl

capital. Her startup fund

d already begun, ticking aw

essage from Ford to 'unread'. Let him think she was

oving aside flimsy dresses and high heels. She dug into the back, pulling out a p

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