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032: Betrayed

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~Elena’s POV~

My chest tightens. “What?”

“It’s exile essentially but it clears my name. Let me start over somewhere else. London, maybe. Or New York.”

“And if you don’t take it?”

“Then I fight the charges. Probably go to prison for conspiracy I didn’t commit. Evidence is circumstantial but damning…the emails, the phone calls, the timing. Isabella made sure it looks real.”

I sink onto my apartment floor. “When do you have to decide?”

“Twenty-four hours. They need an answer by tomorrow night.”

“What do you want to do?”

“I don’t know. If I leave, I will lose you. If I stay, I lose everything else.” His voice breaks. “So I’m asking…if I stay and fight, will you wait, or is this already over?”

The question I’ve been avoiding.

“I don’t know,” I admit. “My father tried to destroy us while pretending to support us. Your family actually destroyed us while being honest about it and we…” My voice cracks. “We destroyed ourselves by being too selfish or too stupid or too desperate to stop.”

“So th
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