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Chapter 6: UGLY DINNER.

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DANTE:

Max Ashford-Moretti.

Even his name was a joke. A hyphenated monument to his shamelessness. The man had seduced my mother during the worst period of her life, swept in with charm and empty promises while she was grieving, vulnerable and believing people were inherently good.

He married her for her money. Everyone knew it. I knew it.

And the moment that ring was on her finger, he made it his mission to get rid of me.

I was the obstacle. The reminder that she'd had a life before him, a fami
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