Chapter 56

“Fine, fine!” I raised my glass. “To love that eludes us.”

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Love had eluded me too, hadn’t it? 1 had made so many sacrifices for Edward, only to be abandoned in the end.

It seemed I finally found the one thing I had In common with a man as privileged as Soren, after all.

He clinked his glass against mine, but before he drank, he stopped. “Do you still love your ex?”

I took a sip of my red wine. “Nah. But it does take time to completely remove him from my mind we were together for years.”

“I figured,” he replied.

“And a minor correction: he’s hardly my ex–husband in the eyes of the law. It’s a load of crap, but the long and short of it is that I have a feeling we won’t be legally separated for a while,” I complained.

Our second appointment was tomorrow, but I was worried he would be a no–show again. If he pulled that stunt, I’d have no choice but to sue him.

I didn’t want to do that, though, simply because the legal procedures would be too time–consuming. I was busy for these things lately!

face and asked, “He can’t let go,

too

bitterly. “Sure. The question is, what’s the thing he can’t let

Soren looked baffled.

illness before and needed multiple blood transfusions. He has a rare blood type- which, as it turns out, I share. So,

in a soap opera. Where else

replied, “You’re too good for him in every way.

I at

I hated talking about this, so

about all sorts of things. It felt like

I brought up the 40,000,000 dollars and told

it wasn’t urgent. But I shoved the same legal documents I had prepared last time into

I couldn’t pay him back in five years, he

he caved and

gazed at his signature and name on the documents. His handwriting was

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brain could no

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he did was mesmerizing.

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