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KNOX
I rang up the customer in front of me while Tony, d**k, and Wayne ripped into me about Haley. My hands clenched into fists, and my jaw cracked with rage.
How f*****g dare they?
As soon as the customer collected his bag, I turned on Tony, d**k, and Wayne.
“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” I seethed.
“So she didn’t ruin a marriage?” Wayne challenged me.
“No, she didn’t. Dawson ruined his marriage by f*****g someone other than his wife. The woman who didn’t know her boyfriend was married is not to blame. And besides that, Valentina is better off with Brantley than a cheating asshole like Dawson.”
“Ending a marriage is never okay,” Tony said, shaking his head like a divorce was equal to murder.
“Definitely not,” d**k said. “In our day, you worked things out. You kept
