Fated Love and Loss

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ly choose a path that

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. Alice raised their clasped hands, eager to show off, "Fer

none of my

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with David right now. You two

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ink you can get rid of me! I've done so much for you, why should David be the one

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you being with Alice

let out a chuckle, loo

want you dead. They threatened your life to force me into an all

Brandon, he seemed to anticipa

die in a hundred different 'accidental' ways. Do you think your family's company went ba

n in my mi

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d by the time I realized it, my

suspicious about my parents' death

the truth would b

ren't business rivals but people

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wung a punch

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da, does this mean you'll never forget me? I wasn't planning to tell

ttitude made me t

aekwondo moves, I punch

serve

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into a wa

nt, I finally broke down

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