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Autumn

My heart was very heavy because of everything that was happening. I didn’t even have any form of appetite, and I stayed in the room for the entire day.

When I heard a firm knock on the door, I knew that it was Dante.

My heart skipped a beat, but I didn’t go over to open the door.

“Autumn, I know you are in there. Don’t be stubborn. Just open the door,” he said to me from behind the door.

Why was he here? What did he care?

He had everything he needed, and he was back to the woman he was going to get married to even though he lied to me that they weren’t going to get married. How could I have believed a man like Dante De Luca? I didn’t even know which hurt was deeper; Dante’s lies and betrayer, or my mother’s greed.

She had also tried to call me since we last spoke, but I completely stopped taking her calls.

I couldn’t have hated her more than I did now. She was the driving force of my dad’s frustration, which eventually led him into the hands of deadly men. How could I forgive h
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