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195 - won't give sky another chance

Author: Scarlett Rain
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-29 00:16:50

(Xander's pov)

When it comes to Karis, I always lose my reasoning. That's how I would describe it. It was foolish of me thinking that just by talking to her we would be able to resolve our differences and be a happy couple we were never in the past.

That could never be the case; how was I going to explain that what happened between me and Emma was a mistake and I was drunk when Vance was in the picture? He was the proof that I was a cheating husband.

One way or the other, Karis would come back, it isn't overconfident, but I know what I was capable of doing. She would have to fulfil her contract, and it just turns out that I was the only one with the stones unless she decides to choose for the black market, like how the scheming Skyler works.

For obvious reasons, my dislike for Skyler grew by the day. I had to hold back myself from not breaking the arm he had on Karis's waist.

She claimed that he was her fiance, but there was no ring on her finger. My little red
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glad he knows how Skyler thinks. going to the black market
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