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I will not be my husband's Achilles heel.

Author: Love4Fiction
last update Last Updated: 2023-12-06 21:52:29
Emile twisted and turned uncomfortably on her bed. No matter how she tried, she couldn’t sleep which was quite a contradiction to her state since she got pregnant. Previously when Chris was with her, she could fall asleep just by sitting quietly for a few minutes and now, no matter how many sheep or pigeons she counted, she just couldn’t sleep.

Emile had never been one to take a back seat even though she had 6 older brothers to shield her from the wind and rain. It was probably because she had 6 older brothers to pamper her to the moon and back, she grew up as the ringleader, never afraid to get into trouble.

Emile only fell asleep in the wee hours of the morning once she decided that she would do what she could to help Chris. She thought through all the threads of Chris’s investigation before deciding what she was going to do; after sieving through the information, she decided to investigate Grace. She fell asleep thinking about the direction of her investigation.

Emile woke up ear
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