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Chapter Twenty-Five: Cordelia's Second Message
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2026-07-26 20:22:05
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I didn't wait to see him walk through that door.The second the bell stopped ringing I grabbed my bag and pushed past the woman in black, out onto the sidewalk, my heart slamming so hard I could feel it in my throat,I heard Sloane call my name behind me, once, and I didn't turn around. I just walked, fast, not caring which direction, just needing distance between myself and that salon before his hand touched that door.I made it two blocks before I had to stop and grip a lamppost, my legs shaking too hard to keep going,I stood there breathing, in and out, in and out, until the street stopped tilting.I didn't see him. I want that on record, even just to myself,I never let him see my face in that room….whatever Sloane wanted to happen in there, whatever she was hoping to watch unfold between us, I took that away from her the second I ran.It didn't feel like a victory. It felt like barely surviving something.I didn't sleep that night,I lay in the hotel bed with my hand on my stomach,
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Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Twenty-Five: Cordelia's Second Message
The box was sitting outside my hotel room door when I got back from the pharmacy, wrapped in paper so plain it almost looked like a mistake, no return address, no card taped to the top.I stood in the hallway holding my small bag of prenatal vitamins and looked at it for a long moment before I picked it up,it was heavier than I expected. Whoever left it hadn't gone through the front desk, hadn't left it with the concierge the way deliveries usually came, he or she had just set it down against my door like they knew exactly which room was mine without needing to ask anyone.That alone should have told me something.Nobody was supposed to know which room was mine,I hadn't given this address to anyone besides Marcus, and Dana, and the two of them I trusted the way you trust the only two people left who haven't hurt you yet.I carried it inside and set it on the little desk by the window, the one piece of furniture in the room that wasn't bolted down, and I stood there looking at it inste
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