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Tete-a-tete

Author: Vanessa Pens
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-15 23:16:58

Rhys

She looked like she couldn’t believe me, different emotions ran through her face at once and it was hard to keep track of all of them.

“All you have to do is deny that it's not me,” I explained to her, sounding as casual as possible as if it were the simplest thing to do. How was I supposed to know that somehow someone had taken pictures of me and the ginger-haired and sent them to the media as juicy gossip?

It was suddenly everywhere, people called, my reputation was at stake and the possibility of losing the clients I had won over to my side was high.

How could I be so careless? But it could be fixed, no one could tell that it was me, it was taken from the back, and those who knew me very well were free to be skeptical but I was going to prove that it could be anyone.

The 5’2 woman in front of me kept staring at me as if I had grown another head. “Are… Are you crazy?! That would be so hypocritical and I don't know what else it could be because your name isn't exactly in the dic
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