ened, but for Sarah, time had shattered just like

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. She had given that man everything, her loyalty, her trust,

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the office parking lot,

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blazer and lifted her chin. If James expect

he entered, all

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wisted. What the

the marble floor, determined to ignore them.

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wasn't going to sta

ia was already waiting, arms crossed,

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office is staring at me like I gre

exhaled sharply. "You have

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NER AND CHLOE HARRISON –

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eeded

before she suffocat

abbed her bag and stor

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remember how

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world had j

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the man she was supposed to marry, had bee

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her and Chloe from years ago and hurled it acro

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to the floor, clutching her chest as if that wo

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she do t

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could do w

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