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Chapter 183: Date?
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Meredith finished up with work Friday late as usual. Only when she was riding home with Brayden did she ever go home on time. Now that she was in a new job she hadn't changed her old habits of barely making it in time and staying as the last one to leave.
She had an interesting day, learning that Brayden foolishly tried to give her half of everything he owned after barely half a year of marriage. It had been half a year hadn't it? Meredith thought about it. It seemed like it was much longer.
She sighed and stretched, then began to close up everything she had been working on. She wasn't sure how to respond to Brayden. She couldn't deny that she missed him. She had missed him even when she was mad at him for leaving her across the world without saying anything.
There was more to it than that, she thought. Maybe Mercedes was right. Maybe they should just go on a date and see what happens from there. She had started seeing Brayden as her best friend, sorry Taylor, s
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