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2022-02-24 01:53:29Astrid’s POV
I decided to leave mom’s house to get to a lawyer and apply for divorce. I got up and went to the door. As I opened it and went outside, a voice scared me.
“Astrid”
I looked at my right side and Noah was standing with his head down. “Don’t do this”
“Don’t do what?” I didn’t expect him to know where I was going.
“You think I don’t know where you are going? Astrid please try to understand. Don’t do this. This is too much--”
“Yeah, too much, right. And about the fact that you hid everything from me? Yeah, it isn’t big now, is it?”
“It… it is, Astrid, but…”
“I don’t know and I don’t care, Noah, not anymore. I am done trusting and caring and getting deceived all the time!”
“I didn’t ‘deceive’ you, Astrid, don’t
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