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I WOULD HAVE STRANGLED THAT FUCKER IF I COULD HAVE. THE WAY NOEMI tensed up around her father made me want to shoot him on the spot. I wasn’t sure how I hadn’t seen it when we first met, except that I’d been distracted by the entire concept of an arranged marriage. I would have thought Noemi would feel emboldened now that she was free of him, but I got the sense he still held some power over her. It pissed me the f**k off—so much so that it was unsettling. How had I gone from begrudgingly agreeing to marry a woman to obsessing over her thoughts and feelings? This marriage was only ever www.ajpdf.com supposed to be about duty and proving my loyalty. Somehow, my perspective had completely shifted in two short weeks. When Noemi had asked me why I’d agreed to marry her, I couldn’t tell her the
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