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Chapter 10

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Had this been the plan all along? Was the two-week trip, a trip that I would still be on right now, just a cover so that he could sneak away with his mistress to San Francisco for a private tryst?

How ridiculous.

A half-smile twisted my lips upward just as Misha’s gaze finally fell upon me.

At first, he glanced over me, his gaze completely blank of recognition–I was just another face in the crowd. A woman he didn’t know.

But then, something shifted in his eyes. He looked again. Squinting, h
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