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“So I was just the sidekick, making) your side chick look all dazzling? You’ve got some nerve.” I slapped him hard. Jared’s face turned to the side, but he just calmly took off his glasses, set them on the table, and said, “Go ahead, hit me, yell at me–whatever helps you vent.”

My palm stung like hell–hurting him hurt me too. It was a lose–lose situation.

1 dropped my hand. No more hitting.

Jared braced himself for another slap, but just looked at me gently. “Victoria, you remember every stroke of my writing, Even at the very end of our previous life, you still loved me, didn’t you?”

My heart felt like it’d been stabbed. I shot him a look full of hate. “You’re dreaming. The moment I died, you were nothing to me.”

‘Then why do you remember even the tiniest quirks of my handwriting?‘ Jared’s eyes gleamed with a crazed delight, like he’d just uncovered some dark secret. ‘You must have been hopelessly in love with me your whole life.’

‘Just shut up,‘ I muttered, too drained to even argue anymore.

Jared actually listened, clamping his mouth shut and just standing there, gazing at me with a dazed, lovesick look.

want?” I finally asked, forcing

a helpless look.

you want with me?” I shot back, my voice

paused, then said, “I want to make up for the mistakes I made in our previous life. I want to raise our daughter right, so she doesn’t end up being a little

Yvonne was like a

Yvonne rotten. Not long after you died, Yvonne was street racing and ended up killing someone. It


life, she didn’t even see me as her mother anymore. I don’t care what

trembling. “But the first person Yvonne called was Tracy. Tracy told her to run and said she’d handle the rest. Yvonne listened, and that was when my business rival pounced. The accident made

because you spoiled Tracy so much

found out Yvonne had killed someone in a hit–and–run, it felt like I’d been struck by lightning. That was the

came running over, bawling and apologizing, but the sly look in her eyes just made me hate her.” Jared lowered his gaze, voice barely audible. “I was the one who screwed up, but you and Yvonne

guilt trip,” I cut him off coldly. I didn’t want to hear his

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