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CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Declined

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Adrienne woke before dawn.

She hadn't slept—not really. Every time she'd closed her eyes, she heard it. The moans. The breathless gasps. The rhythmic sounds that had echoed through that connecting door for what felt like hours.

Her supposed husband. Fucking his mistress. Loud enough to make sure she knew exactly what she was missing.

The rage that had burned white-hot last night had cooled into something sharper. Something colder. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction of a confrontation, he's
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