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“I was looking everywhere for you, Derek. Why didn’t you come to take pictures with us?” Vanessa asked him, leaning against him as though all the bones in her body had suddenly melted into liquid and she could not stand on her own anymore.

She didn't show any sign that she saw Ava standing there only a few inches away from them. Derek gently removed her arm from his and stood aside.

Enough with being a gentleman. There was no point in being one because he was going to set Vanessa straight before he went home, and after that, he wasn’t going to put himself in a position in which she would think anything was going to happen between them.

“Ava, this is Vanessa. Vanessa, this is Ava … my … You remember her, don’t you? We visited you guys a few times while we were married.” Derek introduced the two women.

He had been about to call Ava his ex-wife, but somehow, the words just wouldn’t leave his throat. He did not like the look on Vanessa’s face. He could sense some hostility from her, which