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2021-08-04 09:13:47Nero
“Mart.” I called my secretary.
“Sir, you missed the meeting with the Sloanes. They already left.” He said with a stern voice. It's like he's mad at me or anything.
“Left?” I asked and then looked at the calendar before everything dawned on me. “Motherfucker!” I cursed out loud outside the hospital where Lucy is staying.
Kinsella and her cousin had already left Hermosa. Fuck my life.
Damn it! This is all my fault. I should have told her everything that's happening. I should've told her what the deal is.
Lucy had a threatened abortion. She almost lost her baby and because of that she got scared to death that she even asked me to find Jean, the father of her child. I couldn’t turn her down because she was there, in front of me, crying her heart out. I couldn't turn down a friend's plea. Not when she's this weak.
But then I was too busy taking care of her request that I f
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