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.

could distinctly hear his

moment, the entire world seemed

Meryl's sleeping face,

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if it were about

wondered, "Why am

swallowed hard, his eyes fixed on Meryl's face,

himself leaning in

force.

through his mind like a silent film, flooding him with emotions

realized, perhaps for the first time, that his heart

years, Dalton had been in

created

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fell on Meryl's full, rosy lips, and the thought that they had been

he pressed

eyes closed, Dalton was

lips were about to

deeply, just taking a

sensed someone at the door but had been too lazy to