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Chapter 17
I returned home later that day. Once again Clara was waiting for me there. Liann had apparently dropped her off last night. She was too scared to sleep by herself so she fell asleep the moment I sat her down for lunch.
I picked her up and brought her to my bed. Whenever she stayed over it was our bed anyway, my apartment didn’t have two bedrooms and my bed was
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I quickly dashed back into my bedroom and pulled out a dress. Even though he had previously seen me in my standard hoodie and yoga pants attire, tonight I looked extra bad. There were nacho stains on my hoodie and I had dropped a bottle of whiteout on my pants, which gave me some rather suspicious white looking stains. No, tonight was special. It was real now, I was pregnant. He could no longer kick me out of our contract.
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I opened the door before I realised that I could have just pretended not to be home. I didn’t want to believe what I was seeing. It was easier to think that she had forgotten all about us.She was much thinner, her collar bones were poking out underneath her tank top. Her hair was blond, though her roots that came down to her ears betrayed her natural brunette
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