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Worry About Me If It Makes You Feel Better
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She's No Beauty Queen False Hope
Mark frowned. Edward had seemed so sure she was still alive earlier when he insisted on continuing with their plan as if she was.“We don’t know for sure that she’s dead. She might be out there still. Lily thinks she is,” he pointed out.He let out a sardonic laugh. “Don’t get me started on Lily! I have to keep seeing a woman who has Angel’s face but isn’t Angel in order to keep up appearances before we get a solid answer. Even though I think she’s never coming back, I have to act like she is on the off-chance because if I break our deal, she’ll have no reason to stay.“Isn’t that pathetic? I already believe she’s gone yet I’m still clinging to the foolish notion that she might be alive for such a paranoid reason. She’s already gone either way. It’s been two weeks; if she was going to show up by now, she would have.”“What exactly is your deal?” Mark couldn’t help but ask.He had been wondering for ages but didn’t think it was his place to comment on his boss’s love life or lack there
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Angelina Dawson had always had bad luck. People thought she lived a charmed life because of how beautiful she was when they first met her. Then they found out about her epilepsy and felt sorry for her or joked about how someone as perfect as she was had to have some sort of flaw. She never thought it was funny.She didn’t get to have a normal childhood both because of her seizures and the fact that her mother was trying to vicariously live out her failed dream through her. Her activities were limited to what would help her win talent portions of pageants.She could sing, dance, play five different instruments including one that wasn’t technically an instrument at all (musical glasses), twirl batons, hula hoop with five hoops at once on various limbs, and speak three languages fluently but never had a proper friend. She had to be friendly to everyone she met but couldn’t get close.The other pageant girls saw her as competition. The kids at school thought she was too perfect to approac
Last Updated : 2024-12-19She's No Beauty Queen What Are We Doing Here?
Angelina didn’t remember anything from when she ate dinner with her manager at her house to when she woke up in Eddie’s arms sore all over and covered in hickeys. She froze for a moment in panic at the gaps in her memory before realizing what had happened.Her manager must have given her something and made a deal with Eddie about getting that sponsorship after all. He was a really good actor! He actually made her believe that they were friends.By the time she came to her senses enough to get up and run away, he yawned and opened his eyes, sleepily mumbling “good morning, beautiful.” He didn’t seem fazed or apologetic in the slightest.With strength Angelina didn’t know she had, she shoved him off of her and wrapped the sheet around herself protectively. She couldn’t think of words nasty enough to hurl at him for taking advantage of her when she finally thought she found someone she could trust.Had Eddie not done it the night they met because there were too many witnesses? Or because
Last Updated : 2024-12-19She's No Beauty Queen Get Out
“You got Angelina pregnant,” the manager said smugly. “She can’t keep the child because it would ruin her career but to compensate for the trauma of having to abort it, you need to sponsor her. If not, we’ll sue. Your choice. We can discuss our options if you like.”Silence permeated the room for a moment before Eddie spoke up furiously. “Get out.”Angelina finally looked up because she wasn’t sure which one of them he was referring to at first. His expression was downright deadly as he continued.“Don’t you dare act like you care about her when you did this in the first place. We will discuss this but not with you present. Leave before I call the cops to escort you off my property.”Hang on…why was he acting like he was a victim too? And the manager looked thoroughly abashed. Had Eddie not been involved in this? Had it really been entirely the manager’s scheme to blackmail him all along?She watched him go back outside with her heart in a state of confusion. If Eddie wasn’t a part of
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Focusing on her goals was the only thing Angelina could do. It was what kept her going.She was going to win Miss Americana. She was going to become a neurologist. She would step away from the limelight and finally be able to make real friends and have the sort of life that she wanted.Her relationship with Eddie wasn’t real anyway. As long as she fulfilled her end of the bargain by giving birth to this child and helping him raise it at least partially, she was allowed to do whatever she wanted.He took such good care of her for two reasons as far as she could tell. The first being that he desperately wanted this child to be born because he didn’t have any family and that couldn’t happen if she wasn’t doing well. The second was that he felt guilty toward her for what happened.The manager may have initiated this but he had still been unwittingly involved. He did whatever he could to provide for her but the budding friendship they had before this all happened was completely gone.Whate
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At this point, Angelina wasn’t even sure whether she wanted to win or not. She would have to leave her sweet baby for the better part of a year but it would also give her a ton of scholarship money. Using money she had earned for herself on her education instead of relying on Eddie was tempting.In addition to that, winning would postpone the wedding another year. If she lost…she would have to marry Eddie immediately as stipulated in the contract.State titleholders were only allowed to compete in the Miss Americana pageant once even though they were allowed to compete in the lower pageants down the chain multiple times. This was her only shot to be able to beat her mother.Somehow, the thought wasn’t as satisfying as it once was. She had no idea what she actually wanted.Angelina was in her third year of online school. If she kept up with her coursework after becoming Miss Americana, she should be able to start applying for medical schools before her reign ended and start up in the f
Last Updated : 2024-12-19She's No Beauty Queen Forgotten
Three days passed. The man seemed to work a day job so Angelina was left alone with her thoughts for about nine hours at a time.He let her out to use the bathroom first thing in the morning, as soon as he got home, and right before bed. She couldn’t exactly escape because he held a knife to her throat all the way there and back and the bathroom window was too tiny to squeeze through even if it did open.He fed her foods like mashed potatoes, Jell-O, broth or cream-based soups, and yogurt that were supposedly good for sore throats and provided cough drops too. He really did seem to only want her for her singing voice and nothing else.At least most of her basic physical needs were being met. She had to try and wash all of her makeup off with nothing but soap and water, which was difficult, but was fairly sure she got everything.Her hair was stiff with hairspray since he didn’t allow her to shower but that was a minor inconvenience. The bigger problems were her contacts and her lack o
Last Updated : 2024-12-19She's No Beauty Queen In Terms Of Soap Operas
At the two-week mark, Angelina had given up all hope of being rescued. She spent every second she wasn’t singing completely numb.The man—she still didn’t know his name because he lived alone and never bothered to introduce himself—came home with a furious expression at the end of his workday and shoved his phone in her face. “What is this? Why are your personal social media accounts being updated still when you’re here? Are you a fake?”She squinted at the screen. What on earth? She hadn’t taken either of those pictures. They appeared to be at volunteer events that were on her schedule that she hadn’t been able to make it to because she was stuck here.Her life as Miss California was low on the list of her priorities right now but she had wondered what they were doing in her absence more than once. Was some crazy doppelgänger posing as her taking advantage of the fact that she was missing or did Eddie find a substitute?Did that mean he was looking for her after all? But if it was a
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Lily and Mark had a small simple wedding at a garden venue. Angel convinced her to let her apply light makeup for the occasion with the rationalization that she would only be getting married once. It did make her stand out in the pictures so she supposed that was something.All of their friends and her family were there to support them. Aria was the most adorable flower girl ever and her nephew Hunter was the ring bearer. Angel was the matron of honor and Randi and Genevieve were her other bridesmaids. Mark’s best man was Eddie and two of his bowling friends rounded out the wedding party.They went on their honeymoon to Hawaii where they took another submarine tour and hiked what felt like every inch of the island of Maui. Lily was happy but exhausted by the time they got home.Despite experiencing a major life event, not much changed in terms of work or their general schedules for another year when she got pregnant with their son Damien. Her job was kind enough to let her take a year-
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Talking to Angelina about her seizure frequency being pregnant only made Mark feel worse because he knew Lily wanted multiple kids. She would be putting herself at risk more than once and he wasn’t sure he would be able to live with the anxiety. As it was, he wasn’t sure how Edward was able to do it.Maybe that was who he needed to talk to in order to ease his fears. Someone who had been in the position he would potentially find himself in twice.Mark knew that it wasn’t fair to leave Lily hanging forever. He wanted to spend his life with her, he truly did, but he needed to get his fears under control first.“How do you handle knowing your wife could have a seizure any time?” he blurted when he and Edward were in the car on their way to a meeting the day after his conversation with Angelina.He didn’t seem terribly surprised by the question. It seemed that she had told him what they talked about yesterday. “I don’t know. I guess I’m used to it by now. She did have one within five minu
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They exchanged numbers and Angelina excused herself to get back to work. She should be able to focus now that she had gotten a bit of a break. It was nice knowing that at least one of her former associates was doing well these days. She hoped they were all able to find things that made them happy the way she had.Mark didn’t even look up when she came back in. He was that focused on his work. She wasn’t able to catch his attention at all until she called his name three times after finishing what she needed.“Sorry, I was in the zone. Are you ready to go?” he asked sheepishly.“Yeah. Thanks for sticking around.”Angelina felt a bit guilty to be inconveniencing him like this but at least he already knew Eddie was a worrywart when it came to her. That was why he wasn’t letting her drive on her own.He didn’t say anything until they were nearly back at her house. “Hey…um…do you always have seizures when you’re pregnant?”That was completely out of the blue. Why would he ask about that?“T
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She's No Beauty Queen You Know I Thrive On Chaos
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