Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

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Meryl didn't pry any further; instead, she sent Anne her

location.

Half an hour later, Anne pulled up, and Meryl hopped into the

passenger seat.

"What's with the hospital visit? Are you feeling unwell?" Meryl asked, glancing over at her friend.

Anne nodded slowly, then shook her head as if struggling to

find the right words.

After a moment of hesitation, she finally admitted, "Last night,

I slept with Dante."

Meryl blinked in surprise. "Wait, aren't you two on the verge of

divorce? Is this a reconciliation I'm hearing about?"

Anne wasn't quite sure how things had spiraled into that

situation.

When she got home last night, she had laid the divorce papers in front of Dante, ready for him to sign so she could head to

the courthouse and finalize things.

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But Dante had glanced at the papers and suddenly smirked.

"What's that supposed to mean No need to drag this out-Just be a man about it?" Anne had asked, urging him to sign and get it over with.

But Dante just laughed, a wicked glint in his eyes. "Oh, you want me to sign? Ever heard of a 'breakup hookup'?"

Anne had been taken aback, cursing him in her mind.

yet here he is,

kind of guy. He took advantage of her while she slept, leaving her high and dry without signing a thing. The thought made her

hardly been intimate, yet now, right before their

ago, after a similar encounter, he had smugly declared, "Anne, as long as we're not officially divorced, you're still mine. Deal with

to a slap across his face and a

them ever since.

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her cheeks flushing with embarrassment. So, your reason

my penod 1 ye need to get it checked out? Anne replied, her tone shifting to

was definitely

attention.

was a bit lengthy, and to pass the time, Anne tried to make small

the way, the news about you hitting Dalton has spread the wildfire, I heard he's

last night's incident, it was clear that Mer had

entire Aniston family showed up at the

is probably there

a moment, her

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went to

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Meryl's eyes, Anne realized that Meryl probably didn't know

It wasn't surprising.

appearing in the public eye

the past year.

people knew very little about

spent the previous three years in

turned green, and Anne gently pressed the accelerator. The car started

is Dalton's uncle.

expression turned to

hearing right, or is Anne just

me?"

to Anne, swallowing hard. "Are you kidding

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tone serious, "Do I look like I'm

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real uncle.