Secrets and Love

e was getting ready for her date with Kingsley. He was taking her to meet his family. She had met

ss shelter under a new identity, Gina Amilo, plagued by guilt and anxiety but finding solace in Richie, who call

the shelter. After hearing Rachel was new to town and jobless, Calisa had told her of a vacancy in the restaurant where she worked as a waitress and had offe

her bedsit since it was closer to the restaurant. Rachel had been so grateful but puzzled as to why she was bei

, they quit. Calisa moved out and got a j

d up her purse and headed f

ulled out the engagement ring he’d bought days before and looked at it. He was planning to propose that evening. He knew his parents might prove

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ading towards Greenpark, the upscale middle-class nei

missed y

e had exciting news she wanted to share with him. That morning, she dis

ately mansion, and

ly above average height, full-bosomed, and slender with a rou

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y girlfriend. Gina, meet

, Mrs. Mitchell,”

e well-furnished living room, where he

eceived the same unfriendly stare. She an

chell bombarded her with questions. He was a tall, broad man in his e

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rowned. “Your parents are coal

my mom was a school caterer. They di

tions, their scorn evident, till

ot annoyed and took her home. His parents' behavior spoiled

o see Mabel come into the café where

a fiancée, and you are nowher

roughout the day, and she ref

when there was a knock on her door. She op

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to me,” sh

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be, you are the only one in my life;

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