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Author: Perls
last update Last Updated: 2024-02-25 23:59:17

With anxiety and a sense of urgency, Zoe checked the phone number that sent the message to her phone and dialed it instantly. With her fingers trembling unnoticeably, she waited patiently for the person at the other side to pick up the call, while contemplating on what she would say to start the conversation.

"I thought you would not call," she heard the obnoxious voice from the other side of the phone, and Zoe could swear that she felt her head spin dizzily at the words of the person she could never mistake for another. She didn't even need to ask how he got her phone number.

"You bastard!" Her lips trembled as they shot out words of despise, as the veins of her neck stood out in livid ridges.

She stood up from where she was sitting sharply like a controlled marionette, and began to walk to her living room where she could stare at her surroundings through her floor-to-ceiling window. She imagined tilting Malcolm from that point so high with his hands and legs tied, while watching
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Marvel
I don’t know what to do right now also, but it might take a while before I come back to continue reading this
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xman
Zoe should insult this narcs by saying how he turned into a gold digger himself when he was once said that to Zoe. N why did Zoe went to see him AGAIN without her bodyguards? N will she eat n drink everything this narcs offers her? Guards up, ZOE.
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xman
I dunno whether to drop or to cont reading this story when it comes to this extent that Zoe had to submit AGAIN to this red flag. Sexy when ur ex wife cursed u? Huh! Narcissist to its core.
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