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Chapter 11: Plans

Penulis: Jirani Poa
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Anna spent the rest of the day devising plans on how to beat Liam at his own game. This one cocktail party, or whatever party it was, would play a key role in the direction her life would take from now onwards. It could either make her divorce process cheap, easy, and faster, or it could make it lengthy, messy, and very expensive. Anyone in their right mind would choose an easier route, but it came at a price. A worthy price compared to the alternatives.

Deep down, there was a teeny tiny piece of her heart that held hope that her marriage still had a chance. But the rest of her heart had been shattered too many times from years of neglect, together with her expectations that there was no longer a place to keep that love alive. Her heart was just a tiny fleck away from being completely frozen. But that tiny fleck kept giving her hope and encouraging her to press on, hold on just a little longer. Not to give up yet. That things might turn out better. That maybe Liam loved her, and he had
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