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The line Melvin won't cross yet

Author: Pretty Betty
last update publish date: 2026-08-04 18:17:22

**Chapter 25: The Line Melvin Won't Cross Yet**

Melvin told himself, driving to the mansion three days after the strategy meeting, that he only wanted to check on her. That the small gift bag on the passenger seat — a set of business cards from a print shop he happened to know did excellent work, the kind of thoughtful, useful gesture a friend might offer another friend rebuilding a company under siege — was nothing more than kindness. He'd told himself a version of that story the whole drive o
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