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Chapter 133: Still his wife
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2024-12-29 10:45:19The days had passed since the night Gideon and I had shared that long, difficult conversation at the bar. I had tried to go about my life, keeping my distance from him, just as I promised myself I would. But things weren’t as simple as I had imagined. The more time I spent apart from him, the more I found myself questioning everything. I had thought I could let him back into my life as a friend—after all, what did I have to lose? But it wasn’t that easy.
I had just arrived home from a meeting at work when I saw her standing on my doorstep. The woman who had once been Gideon’s lover—and had played a key role in everything that had gone wrong between us—Alexa. She stood there, poised and confident, but I could see the tension in her posture, the way her shoulders were set, as if bracing herself for whatever might come next.
I hesitated for a moment. My chest tightened. I had not expected to see her, not in my home, and certainly not li
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