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SIXTY EIGHT
I sighed heavily as I looked beside Michael. “There is nothing we can do about this,” I told him quietly before I faked a smile. "Ah, Melissa, there is no way I would ignore you; I just haven’t gotten the chance to greet everyone yet."
“No problem; I know for a fact that you won’t let politics get between us; at the end of the day, it is just a game and only one player will win; either of us might end up being losers; we just don’t know it yet." Melissa came around as she embraced me, blowing air kisses to both my cheeks and doing the same for Michael.
“Excuse me, Lance, you think maybe we could talk on the side while we leave the ladies to themselves?" Michael tried to excuse himself while taking Melissa's husband along. I am sure he was just being polite because if it was left of him, he would simply walk out on all three of us.
He despises the Lance family a lot. I am sure Melissa knows that, which is why she rema
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SETH POVMy body shifted to each side of the bed, trying to find comfort, but it was hard. So many things stuck in my mind that blocked every area of my thinking. I couldn't bear it. I pulled open my drawer to pick up a pack of cigarettes, only to hear the knock on the door.I knew it couldn't be Scarlett, as she was just here a couple of minutes ago, so who else? Bella?I opened the door to an angry Bella as she pushed me aside to enter the room."How can you do this to me? How?" Bella questioned. I had no clue what she was angry over, and I didn't want to screw it up by pretending I knew, so I pulled off my nonchalant attitude and went straight to bed, kicking the drawer close before she saw the pack of cigarettes."Seth, I am talking to you." Bella sat on the bed next to me. "Are you sleeping?""No, I am not." I shifted my body so she could sit properly as she was hanging on to the edge."Seth I just got off the phone from your mother; she said you want to push the wedding to a muc
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