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Chapter 53

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Kaleb

Two weeks after Ayla had seen her brother with Danica, none of us had made a point to tell Roman. If anything, he deserved to be kept in the dark about Danica's extramarital affairs, just as he had done to Ayla. To some extent, he was getting what he truly deserved—a cheating fake wife.

Seated in a high-end restaurant for dinner, I stared at my phone for the umpteenth time, holding it under the table, like I had been for two weeks. On the screen was Amanda's picture holding a roughly four- to almost-five-year-old boy. The caption under the picture in her chat was clear as day, written, 'Meet your son, Kaleb.' It was the same picture she had sent when Dean discovered that Ayla's phone was tapped.

"You seem distracted; is everything okay?" Ayla asked, making me snap my head up.

"Who, me?" I hesitated, hurrying to pick up the fork from my barely eaten food.

"Yes, for the last two weeks all you do is stare into space, barely finish your food, or even get work done in the office," sh
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I think Kaleb keeping it to himself is a bad idea, she would find out and would be hurt instead
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