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277: Promise

Auteur: Peace C
last update Date de publication: 2026-06-06 22:06:51

Liam's POV

I did not say anything on the walk to the car.

Not because I had nothing to say, but the opposite. I had too much of it and I needed to let it settle before I opened my mouth, because some of what I was feeling was the kind of thing that came out wrong if you said it before you understood exactly what it was.

What I had watched in that establishment had done something I had not prepared for. I had gone in bracing for something ordinary, a way to understand what she had been keeping a
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Rachael Aldrich Hopkins
It is going to bad when the other secret c9mes out. Liam will be hurt and Avery is going ro lose the best thing she has in her life(him). Trust is everything in a relationship, just like he said.
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Maura Donahue
Well Liam, you hold onto that if it gives you comfort. She’s still holding out on you.
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