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Chapter 37: The Reality Check

ผู้เขียน: CASSANDRA MILLS
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**Hayes POV**

I left Leylie Field’s apartment feeling certain I’d get a yes soon. I knew the salary I’d offered would stun her. I hadn’t planned to go that high, but seeing the peeling paint on the walls and the way she carried herself, with her shoulders tense like she was waiting for another bad thing to happen, something shifted in me. Pity, maybe. Or guilt over how Finnian had treated her. That man was a leech, and I was going to make sure he paid for every move he’d made against me.

I deci
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