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Chapter Forty Five

Author: Divine
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-13 03:41:17

Melissa's POV

Rain clung to my skin like it had frozen there as i slid between the iron gates and my heart was racing so furiously, i thought it would tear itself out of my chest with each footstep on the gravel driveway echoed too loud but i pushed myself forward and i couldn't go back now not when everything I’d tried to bury was clawing its way back to the surface.

Jamal’s voice had reached me, sharp and commanding even through the storm. I’d heard the anger, the confusion, the ache and God help me, part of me had wanted to stop, to run back to him and to collapse into his arms and confess everything but the other half that had come to be skilled at surviving secrets and lies understood that this was something i had to do alone.

Lightning ripped the sky in two, illuminating the long, sweeping drive ahead of me and the headlights of a black vehicle flickered once briefly, just past the bend and my gut twisted that he was here...the one who had been lurking at the periphery of my lif
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