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

was that kind of guy. He took advantage of her while she slept, leaving her high

their two years of marriage, they had hardly been intimate, yet now, right

he had smugly declared, "Anne, as long as we're

across his face and a standoff

them ever since.

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with embarrassment.

need to get it checked out? Anne replied, her tone shifting to o more

was

attention.

bit lengthy, and to pass the time,

the news about you hitting Dalton has spread the wildfire, I

feelings for Dolton, but after last night's incident, it was clear that

at the traffic light ahead, "The entire Aniston family showed

husband, Chandler, is

froze for a

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Anne realized that Meryl probably didn't know about the connection

It wasn't surprising.

elusive, only appearing in the

the past year.

knew

years in a remote

traffic light turned green, and Anne gently pressed

uncle. He never

expression turned to

"Am I hearing right, or is Anne just messing

me?"

Anne, swallowing hard. "Are you kidding

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tone serious, "Do

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is indeed Dalton's uncle-his real uncle.