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Chapter 7

Author: Perfect Timing
The client recognized me. The way he looked at me and my father felt a little off, but he didn't say anything.

It wasn't until the meeting was about to end, when Terrance pushed the private room door open, that I realized what he had been thinking: he had assumed my father was some rich man I was seeing on the side.

Terrance stood in the doorway, eyes bloodshot, staring at me.

"You suddenly divorced me and disappeared. Was it because of him?"

In all six years of dating and marriage, he had n
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