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Chapter 44 - Tatum Reid
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Tatum POV
It feels weird to be living in someone else’s house, especially when everything feels cold. Nothing here is mine, and there’s nothing here that I would have bought to decorate the house. I feel like this deal Julien made me take is the best thing for Fred and me. Or so I hope, I wish his solution would’ve been to get me and Fred together, but then, that would’ve made him closer to me, a woman with a messy past, and an ex-husband who is trying to keep her life in check.
I have my own bedroom and even though it looks like it was decorated for a queen; it feels cold and not home at all, my bedroom has blankets and books, candles, photos, and paintings hanging on the walls, messy clothes all around, while here… everything is white, big, comfortable but it looks like it’s supposed to be in a magazine cover. It feels like it’s wrong to lie on a bed like this. It feels like I shouldn’t get anything messy or dirty.
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