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Chapter 8

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Ivy Hart

‘Ivy meet me at the garden in twenty minutes.’

‘How long have you been with Voss?’

‘My fucking brother? Are you doing this to offend me? What did he promise you?’

‘Solange didn't mean what she said.’

‘Ivy I will be by the garden soon by three.’ I read all these messages and many more that came after as the endless bubble kept popping on my screen and going back down.

Good heavens, he was losing his mind.

If he cared so much who I hung with he should have at least done something about it
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