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Ground Rules…

作者: Maya Adams
last update publish date: 2026-06-03 23:21:40

Anastasia's POV

Saturdays were the days I had my ‘ME TIME’ and now I had to use all my time packing up my essentials to move to my husband's house.

Urghh.

The word husband irked me up so much.

The fact that a contract would control and curb me for the next six months irritated me.

I detested it so much.

I wasn't going to move everything I had, just clothes I needed to wear for public functions with him, evening wear, the kind that communicates authority in a room before I even said anything.

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