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Nora's lawyer friend came down to the station to help sort out the rest.As Nora and I walked out of the station side by side, Victoria's low, hoarse voice came from behind me. "Caleb, I'm sorry."I didn't turn around.On the drive home, Nora didn't ask a single question. When we passed a pharmacy, I spoke up first."Nora, can you pull over? I'm sorry you got hurt because of me."Nora sighed and turned to look at me. "I'm the one who should be sorry. I had no idea you'd been going through so much this whole time."The weight of everything hit me all at once, and the tears came pouring out before I could stop them.Over the following month, Victoria didn't show up again. The only sign of her was a transfer of 70 million dollars into my account as compensation.Slowly, one meal at a time, with Nora there beside me, I started to come back to myself.Nora was an associate professor at Graydon University. With her recommendation, I applied for a math teaching position at Graydon Pr
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Victoria found out I'd taken Grandma's ashes back to Southport and traveled all the way here, only to walk in on Nora holding me while I cried.She stormed over. The white roses in her hand hit Nora first, and then she swung and slapped her across the face. Nora pulled me behind her without hesitation and took the full force of it."Stop it! Victoria, have you lost your mind?"Nora, are you okay?" I pushed past her to check. One side of Nora's face was already flushed red, and blood was seeping from the corner of her mouth."I'm fine," she said, giving me a reassuring look. "I hope that didn't scare you.""Caleb Mercer!"Victoria's eyes went red the second she saw that I hadn't spared her a single glance, that I was standing right in front of her fussing over another woman."I waited for you at the county clerk's office all day. I texted you, and you didn't reply. I called you, and you didn't pick up."I was worried sick, looking for you everywhere, and you were here hugging an
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The humid season had settled over Southport, thick and suffocating. Water trickled down the walls of the old apartment building.I held Grandma's urn and made my way up the slick staircase as memories of growing up here with her came flooding back.I had terrible balance as a kid and was always tripping over something. Every time the humidity rolled in, Grandma would go out before me with a mop and carefully dry every step on every floor."Careful, sweetheart. Take it slow. Don't fall.""I'm sorry, Grandma. I think I've taken the biggest fall of my life."I sniffled hard and forced the tears back down. The steps were slippery, and there was no one left to clear the way for me.When I reached the fifth floor, the electronic lock on the front door wouldn't respond no matter what I tried. In the span of three days, I'd lost my only family, the woman I'd loved for eight years, and the career I'd spent four years building.I slid down against the door until I was sitting on the floor
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The county clerk's office closed, and I never showed up.The smile on Victoria's lips slowly faded. She opened our pinned chat one more time. The last message was the one she'd sent. "I'll be right here waiting."Frustration and anger churned in her chest. She'd taken a red-eye flight, ten hours overnight, just to celebrate our anniversary together. And I'd left her waiting the entire day.She scrolled up through our messages and realized the last thing I'd sent was from two days ago."Babe, I'm so nervous."I'd sent it from the hotel while getting ready to head over with the groomsmen. Victoria pressed her lips together and started typing a reply, but a message from her bridesmaid, Holly Reid, popped up first."Vic, isn't this Caleb?"A video followed. Victoria tapped it without thinking.It showed the back of a young man in a wedding suit, collapsed in front of a hospital payment counter. He sat there, frozen, staring as the medical staff wheeled a gurney past him with a whit
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I always kept a strict routine. There was no way I'd still be in bed close to noon without having eaten. She thought maybe losing my job so suddenly had thrown me off.Victoria smiled and shook her head, then headed upstairs to the master bedroom. "Good morning, honey. Get up. We're going to get our license today."She reached the bed, but the covers were smooth and untouched. No one had slept there.Victoria frowned and pushed open the study door next to it, but it was also empty.An uneasy feeling crept into her chest. "Caleb?"Her steps quickened. She searched every room upstairs and down. The house was completely empty."Welcome back, Ms. Langley." Emma arrived at her usual time to make lunch and greeted Victoria at the door.Victoria frowned. "Where's Caleb? Did you tell him to stay off his phone as I asked?""I did, but he got a call yesterday morning and left right after. It doesn't look like he's been back since. He hasn't touched any of the meals I made the past two da
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The light in the storage room was broken, and there were no windows. I lasted until morning. When the housekeeper came to unlock the door, she flinched at the sight of me, my eyes bloodshot."Sir, are you alright?"I shook my head, my voice dry and raw. "Emma, where's my phone?"Emma Lloyd pointed at the coffee table. "Ms. Langley made me cook you some breakfast before she left for her flight last night. She said you should stay off your phone for a few days."I spotted it tossed on the couch and walked straight past the table to grab it. The second it powered on, the screen flooded with missed calls and texts.I opened a link my college roommate had sent. The number-one trending topic was a marriage certificate that Victoria had posted alongside a childhood photo."Childhood sweethearts. Dreams do come true. @RacerSpencerCalloway."The comments were all congratulations."An heiress and the hottest racer in the sport, and they grew up together? I'm obsessed!""Wishing her man
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