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CHAPTER 8

Author: Feyi xtar
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-03-02 21:04:51

Kate's POV

After Jayden left, the silence in the room was deafening. I remained standing in the living room. My mind was filled with thoughts of everything that had just happened. the kiss, the conversation, the tension between us. But as I tried to take my mind off it to focus on Jayden, my mind drifted back to the past.

I grabbed the glass of wine I had left on the counter, my hand trembling slightly as I took a sip. The taste tightened the knot that was forming in my stomach.

‘What am I doing?’ I asked myself, the question repeating itself in my mind over and over.This is not the way it was supposed to be.

Ever since my divorce from Michael, nothing has been the same. I had tried to fill the gaps with other men, with fleeting connections that in the grand scheme of things meant nothing at all. But none of them had been able to replace what I had lost. Michael had been my world for so long, and when that world had collapsed, I had been left trying to pick up the pieces, not quite
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