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A Ruined Home

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MIA

"Oh Lucia, what do I do? This is so messed up." I was nervous and apprehensive.

Jerome was a bastard! How could he have done something like this without letting me in on it? How could he even set his brother up this way? 

Oh God, Jared must be feeling very bad at the moment. I'd been unable to reach him since today. It was really late and he was yet to be home.

He would be with uncle Pete and that Hailey girl. It even annoyed me what he saw in her. Ever since her return, he'd been neglecting me. 

Anyways, that was not the issue here. 

I just needed him home to ensure he was okay but the wait was killing me so I had to call my best friend. 

"It's not your fault, is it? He decided to sleep around. You should be divorcing him and suing his cheating ass." Lucia, my ever loyal friend, uttered angrily. 

Lucia didn't know the whole story. In fact, she didn't know the story at all. 

I emitted a

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