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Normal Life

Auteur: Sharon Michael
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Chapter 54

Zara’s POV

The next morning, I found Josh in his home office, staring at his laptop with a frown. He’d been checking emails but hadn’t actually responded to any of them. It had been over a month since he’d set foot in his consulting firm, and I could see the guilt eating at him.

“Josh, you need to go back to work,” I said from the doorway.

He looked up, shaking his head immediately. “I’m fine working from home. The company can manage a little longer without me physically there.”

“It’s been more than a month. You can’t keep putting your business on hold because of me.” I walked over and sat in the chair across from his desk. “You’ve done more than enough. You took care of me through the entire trial, through all the stress and health scares. But I’m okay now. The trial is over. I’m healing.”

“But your blood pressure, the pregnancy complications…”

“I have Green. She’s literally five minutes away and would drop everything if I needed her. You know that.” I reached across the d
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