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Chapter 7 - The Evidence They Couldn’t Destroy

Author: Rihan Blake
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The Wife He Buried, The Woman He Begged For By Rihan Blake

Chapter 7: The Evidence They Couldn’t Destroy

Amara’s POV

“The baby was never supposed to survive.”

I heard Naomi say the words.

I understood every one of them.

But my mind refused to accept what they meant.

Someone had known I was pregnant three weeks before the gala.

Someone had followed me to the clinic.

Someone had taken photographs.

And when the car was forced off the road, my baby hadn’t simply been an unfortunate casualty.

My chi
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