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2024-10-29 19:42:56**The Marriage Clause**
(Chapter Eight)
Night came and Emily still didn't come down for dinner, Marcus knocked on her door incessantly and even tried telling a dad joke but she remained unhinged and wouldn't open the door.Elizabeth could hear his grumble from her room and after it died down,she closed her laptop and went down to the kitchen,grabbed Emily's dinner and went back up to knock on the door.
‘Emily it's Beth.....open the door'.She muttered and was met with absolute silence,the feeling of hesitancy made her skin crawl and she was on the verge of leaving before the door miraculously opened.There Emily stood,with her hair disheveled and her eyes all puffy from the crying which made Elizabeth's heart shudder—she was only a little girl,she was just too young to be mentally tortured!.
‘What do you want?'.Emily asked still teary eyed.
‘I brought you dinner.....can I
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