Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

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Lydia's cries grew louder, her voice filled with desperation. "Dalton, don't go!

"Please, don't leave me! Is it really because I made a mistake that you're abandoning me?"

Dalton replied softly, "I'm just stepping out for a bit."

He shut the hospital room door behind him, feeling a wave of disappointment.

He didn't want to stay a second longer with Lydia.

Leaning against the corridor wall, Dalton lit a cigarette and took slow drags, letting the smoke curl up and vanish.

Without realizing it, he found himself outside Meryl's room.

There was a magnetic pull, an irresistible urge to see her.

He had a lot he wanted to say to Meryl.

Inside the room, Meryl was sound asleep, a small lump under the covers.

Dalton thought bitterly, "She's made such a mess of my life. How can she sleep so peacefully, completely oblivious?" Chapter 261 Want More

He pressed his lips together, gently closing the door.

Dalton could distinctly

world seemed to be

her bed, he gazed at Meryl's sleeping face, captivated by

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it were about to leap

wondered, "Why am

fixed on Meryl's

leaning in closer, drawn

force.

expressions flashed through his mind like a silent film, flooding him

the first time, that his heart had never truly

these years, Dalton had been in

who had created an

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rosy lips, and the thought that they had

him. Leaning closer, he pressed his hands on her

his eyes closed, Dalton was

as their lips were about

a

but had been