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gs to your mom now. If you think it's still about the company, that compan

care,"

et you return

my mom's i

eye

realized

all the way here to make

ire would be benefi

hter, who had become so prec

came all t

nipulated that contract to make hi

he d

believe the lie about wan

hy his stepdaughter, Kar

taunt

man, but instead, you came all the way here to make me marry him. So there must be so

d your mother even raise y

im if his own mother raised him

want to push

with my mother. I wanted to

en throug

ve tomorrow!" my dad announce

hurried

You can't marry someone you'v

grandfather was best friends with y

oves you back. No! I can't give you to a man that Gary couldn't give his stepdaughter to. I already know that th

igh

one I know

o would lo

d through my mine

it was as if the hopeles

re who I marry. I just want us

to change my mind, bu

, we returne

point that he didn't

ented an apar

er. If we went back, my mom w

h losing Danica. I didn't want anyon

the new apartment

t man will be good to you. What if he hurt

le and replied,

I watched her fo

elves to eat and stay al

ght, I c

how hard

ite foods, but it tasted

the spoon,

ed at me, q

room," I announced and

the door behind me a

another thing I

period for the

ad read about pregnancy symptoms in books, watched

the nausea, the

ed my period because of stress. I really had

tite and nausea were because of

that something had actual

night of prostituting myself

rem

o find out what was g

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ght weeks

rough my head as I

rd to process what

om that I was goin

t night and I could only hope s

begin to tell

too a

ven do with

g to get m

child, especially not fro

I abo

y belly and tears sud

ght of

I was thinking abou

as in no way com

was a t

my womb isn't a

uctant to ab

loss for

ome, I found

hatred toward

a good and responsible human being and fath

uld still

ying the product of a

want?" I aske

seemed he had been waiting f

chan

hy

th the eldest son of t

ed at me fro

like this. I can't let you

ame? Do you even have a

explode, but since he obviously

ill arrive at the house any time

this. We just lost Danica. I can't lose you neither.

't lose me,"

ou have any good clothes. Just come with me." He grabbed my a

ssured my mom once again that I'd

o a high-end w

d the store, an atte

shed me

omething ni