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Fate is a Bitch

作者: Sha Ron
last update 公開日: 2026-04-07 15:36:05

DAHLIA'S POV

Why the rush?

I honestly don’t know why Wellington Chane asked us to come so early to the courthouse.

Well… maybe I do.

His image matters to him a lot. And I am the exact kind of problem he would never want standing next to him in daylight.

My life is messy, broken and scandal-filled.

And he doesn’t want that dirt touching him. He's making it way too obvious that he'd have done anything to make sure I don't come into his life. Nani seems to be fate playing its dirty tricks to make
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