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Chapter 50

Author: Richa Resa
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Valerie

"Did you really say that?" Shay's question had me smiling like crazy.

As Shay's astonishment lingered in the air, I found myself grappling with the weight of my own revelation. "Yeah," I confirmed, my voice carrying a mixture of resignation and determination.

"Well, I'm proud of my girl!" Shay's exclamation pierced through the phone, causing me to instinctively pull it away from my ear.

"Hey, don't make me go deaf," I drawled, half-jokingly, but with a genuine concern for my eardrums.

"Yeah, yeah. Well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me."

"So, did you go through the packet you told me about?" Shay's voice took on a more serious tone, shifting the conversation to the ominous contents of the packet I had recently encountered.

I sighed heavily, the weight of the information still fresh in my mind. IIt made me want to puke my guts out. The things in it didn't made me feel any comfortable. "They were some business contracts, made to please Drew and his sick obsession with wo
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