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Chapter 47: Right Words, Wrong Time
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2026-04-09 18:31:08
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All Shades of Passion Chapter 50: Vulnerability
Mark POVThe drive back from my father's house felt different.Lighter. Like something that had been sitting on my chest for two weeks had finally cracked loose and fallen away.I didn't know if he would make the calls. Didn't know if Mercer would get what was coming to him. My father said "I'll see what I can do," and with Theodore Kingsley, that could mean anything.But it didn't matter.What mattered was that I said what I needed to say. Stood in front of the most powerful man I knew and told him the truth. About Bailey. About us. About what I was willing to give up if the world kept trying to tear her down.I meant every word.The city was quiet by the time I pulled into my building. Normal Sunday evening. Streets mostly empty. The sky had turned that deep shade of blue that came right before full dark.I parked, grabbed my keys, and rode the elevator up to my floor.When the doors opened, I stopped.Bailey was standing at my door.She looked small. Smaller than I had ever seen he
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