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James…” Hearing her call him pulled him back from his thoughts. He cleared his throat lightly and said in a low, husky voice, “Beautiful.” He turned to the store manager and said simply, “We’ll take all of them.” Before she could protest about the untouched pieces on the counter, he was already taking her hand…

Patrick hadn’t expected this so-called discarded rich wife to lay a hand on him. He stayed there with his head turned from the blow, only lifting it slowly at Quincy’s shrill cry. He licked the smear of blood from the corner of his mouth, eyes bloodshot with a vicious, predatory gleam “B*tch, you dare hit…

Mon offended you by mistake. I’m willing to compensate you for emotional damages.” Turning toward Lily, his expression shifted to one of nervous respect, as if he’d never looked at her with anything but reverence. “Look at the jewelry in the case-see anything you like? Pick a few pieces, I’ll buy them for you as…

Privately, Mathilda and her clique had targeted her relentlessly and Quincy had been the most visus of all. Lily would never forget the time she had her period and Quincy, eager to others to assault her. They’d slapped a used sanitary pad onto her face, stole the restroom, and beaten her while laughing at her….

After he cleared the table and loaded the bowls into the dishwasher, she wrestled with the thought for a while before finally testing the waters. James, today’s Saturday-you’re not going to the office, right?” “Mhm.” Lately, his social media feed had been filled with videos of women showing off the gold bangles their boyfriends had…

This man, usually so sparing with his words, had suddenly turned into a broken record. Who else would be the father if not him? She found herself half exasperated by this sudden foolishness, yet her heart still raced at the clear, shining joy in his eyes. She was about to calm her unruly heartbeat when…

“James, we- We should slow down. But he gave her no chance to catch her breath, pressing harder, the heat of in scorching her reason until she could barely think at all. All she could do was wrap her arms around his neck and let him take what he wanted. “Hey- Grace and the others…

The way his body tensed at her touch, like someone desperately fighting temptation, made her eyes curve into a bright smile. “You said… you knew I was Leila. And you said you liked me. James, were you just rambling, or… do you really like me? So he’d said all that last night while he was…

All the strength, all the armor he’d worn shattered, exposing the most fragile, helpless part of him He looked almost like a stranger-yet it only made hier ache for him more. She gently brushed away his tears, her own voice thick with emotion. “I didn’t… James, you can’t skip the medicine.” Thinking quickly, she offered…

“Ms. Lily, Mr. James is really pitiful. You’ve been gone less than two days, and he’s already lost so much weight, he’s hardly recognizable…” Lily: “…” That sounded like a serious exaggeration, Lily remembered she had just seen James the day before. At the time, he had still been every inch the tall, handsome, impossibly…