On The Day I Was Abandoned, I Married A Mysterious Billionaire

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York City Hall, the white fabric

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oward the small visitor

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phone number, and deleted his co

they were holding. I stepped toward the wall, looking down at my shoes, unwilling to

e man in the black suit

off," he said into the receiver. His tone was

nto his breast pocket, and picked up

crossing high on his left cheekbone, the same quiet

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s the tiles and stopped

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hard against my ribs. "Since we're both here, and appointm

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nds. The heat rushed up into my face, and the co

aking a quick step backward

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could. "My fiancé isn't

the stone behind me,

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