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169: Back Together?
"While you were away, I got married…"
Ayla dropped the news on him like a bomb. The room went silent entirely as Ayal listened to the soft thudding of Claude's heart, while waiting for Alex's response.
"You did what?" Even after a good couple of minutes, Alex failed to register the news. It shook him, all of him.
"I got married." There was no resentment or regret hidden in her words as Ayla answered the baffled man.
"When?" Alex snapped, still taking his own sweet time to understand the situation completely.
"Two years back."
"It was two years ago."
Claude and Ayla both replied to him at the same time. Looking into each other's eyes, they smiled at one another before turning their attention back to Alex.
"So…." Alex dragged it as he put two and two together. "You two
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