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Chapter Seven - Cassian

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The agreement was six pages. Seven, if you include the part that had the non-disclosure agreement.

The whole thing was laid out on the table and each and every detail— the terms of the marriage, the publicity appearances made, the money deal, the duration, and most importantly, the clause making it well and clearly understood this was a business partnership and not a reconciliation—was there.

There would be no sex, no shared accounts, and no interference in any of our private lives. This whole thing would last only a year and after that, we’ll end it like nothing ever happened in the first place.

My lawyer, Cyprus, read the contract terms as if he were reciting a play about courtrooms. I nodded occasionally, corrected some phrases here and there, tightened up the privacy terms, and requested a sentence stating that any emotional involvement would affect the legal terms of the contract.

He broke off after that. "You want to legally have emotional boundaries?"

"I want it all on record,"
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