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CHAPTER Ten
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2025-08-04 00:15:00MARCUS.
When Clarissa informed me of her decision to get married to Bruce a few years back, I wasn't totally in support of the idea. I'd noticed that she came home late on some days and usually had a very happy smile whenever she returned, and after a few weeks of asking, she finally gave in and informed me of her relationship with Bruce. I'd done my diligence on him, and I'd discovered that he was a young man who was struggling to find his feet in the corporate world.
I didn't seem satisfied that my daughter was willing to give up the luxurious life she was living to be with someone who literally had little or no means of taking care of her, but because Clarissa was so insistent on getting married to him, I gave her my blessings, making sure to ask her not to inform him of the kind of family she came from. Clarissa didn't care that Bruce was in no way in her league, and since she cared less, I thought it right to support my daughter a
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