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Chapter 14

Author: selenereese
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Jade left Ceynol without an answer. It had been a week since their conversation, yet her mind remained unsettled. She still couldn’t believe it—Ceynol was unmarried. After all these years, he was still single. The revelation had shaken her to the core, and she couldn’t help but wonder if Lilly’s interference had truly kept them apart.

She had spent the past week in a whirlwind of emotions, searching for any proof that Ceynol had lied to her. She scoured social media, asked discreet questions, and even considered hiring someone to look into his past, but everything pointed to the same truth: Ceynol had never married.

"So what?" a voice in her head sneered. "Does that mean you’re going to run back into his arms just because he’s single? Have you forgotten everything? The pain? The humiliation? Are you just going to throw away your pride like that?"

Jade clenched her fists. Her mind was right. Just because he wasn’t married didn’t mean everything was suddenly okay. And even if she did en
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