Chapter 69 – Lines Getting Blurred
Shelly sat on the couch with her laptop open, scrolling through old emails and messages. The lawyer’s words kept repeating in her head. Proof. Patterns. Evidence.
It felt strange going back to that part of her life again. Messages she had ignored, things she had tried to forget, now all of it mattered.
Her fingers paused over one old message.
A long paragraph from Veer. Apologizing. Blaming. Twisting things in a way that once made her question herself.
Now, it just made her angry.
“You okay?” Spencer’s voice came from behind.
Shelly closed the laptop slowly and looked up at him.
“Yeah. Just going through old stuff.”
Spencer walked over and sat beside her. Not too close this time, but close enough.
“You don’t have to do it all today,” he said.
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