Chapter 132

Allow me a chance to tell you my story…

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Instinctively, Martha knew he was about to unlock the door to who he actually was and why he was what he was. His background will tell her all she needs to know about the man she had loved and craved for, silently, and for several years.

Martha nodded firmly. “I promise not to interrupt your story unless it is necessary, Tom.”

She could afford to do that. She had waited too long for this reality. Martha accepted the truth of this in her heart as she folded her hands primly on her laps, ready to listen to Tom and what shaped him to be who he is today.

“Thank you!” Tom acknowledged as he took a calming breath.

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After the weekend they just had in Mike’s family home, Liza was feeling a bit of laziness as they drove to work the following Monday.

For the third time in few minutes, she suppressed a yawn with the back of her hand.

“Want to take a break and go back home?” Mike knew the weekend had been tiring for her. Not out of work or an