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Chapter 32

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Camille stared at him, feeling another surge of conflict in her heart.

How was it that he always knew the right words to say?

More importantly, how could he say something like that despite his busy lifestyle?

“Is that even possible?” she whispered. “Realistically, you can’t always be there for me, Noah. You have such an important career and a bright future ahead of you. I’m just someone from your past, an ordinary woman who’s not of any use to you whatsoever.”

Michael frowned. “That’s not true.”

‘I haven’t stopped searching for you for years,’ was what he wanted to say.

‘You’re the only one who kept me going even when there had been so many times when I just wanted to give up.’

‘You’re the woman that I—’

Michael’s thoughts stopped right there.

She was…

The only woman that he had ever loved.

And the only one that he would ever love in the future.

He knew that he should just say this to her. To make her realize the depth of his feelings for her.

But something held him back. Maybe it was
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