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FIFTY FIVE

Author: Nora Baker
last update Last Updated: 2024-09-20 23:58:22

Chapter 55

Ciara's POV

I ran my hands over my tight fitting dress and smoothened the creases as I walked to Orion's office.

Our relationship as husband and wife has been nonexistent since we got back from that stupid conference and I don't know what to think anymore.

Last night I had been in the shower taking a shower before bed when he suddenly walked in, scaring me.

I relaxed and invited him to join me. I didn't actually expect he would but he did and I was relieved thinking that maybe, finally we were about to put an end to the strike we had been on.

Everything had been going so perfectly and I had felt myself getting lost in the moment when he suddenly pulled away and apologized.

It had all been a blur. One moment I had been on cloud 9 and the next minute I was suddenly grasping at straws.

I stood there, unsatisfied and completely confused. It took me a few minutes to drag myself out of there. I didn't bother looking for him as I crawled into bed and forced myself to
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