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Chapter 28

Author: OscarAzalea
last update publish date: 2026-08-15 20:37:21

The other men, including Richard, looked at old Ellsworth, wondering what he was about to say to Maxwell.

Now, to an outsider, what Peter Ellsworth was about to do would sound completely shameless.

But Ellsworth had spent more than thirty years in business, and he had learned something in those thirty years that people with thinner skins never learned at all.

Pride was expensive.

Pride was the thing that made someone keep quiet, go home, and spend the rest of his life like Victor Schwitz regre
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When will Maxwell and hazel get together since maxwells marriage to driana isn’t real.
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