Chapter 3
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After a two-second pause, a cold laugh
echoed through the phone.
“Chloe, you really don’t even bother to think
through your lies. You just want me to beg
you, so you make this up?”
I closed my eyes, a bitter smile playing on my
lips.
I knew how this would end.
I knew that no matter what I went through,
Rhonda’s well-being would always come first
for him.
Even knowing that, I still held onto a sliver of
hope.
A wave of nausea washed over me, and I
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