#26 - His Kindness

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Lily It was bad enough I was doing the walk of shame, but doing it in the heat of the afternoon in my close-knit neighbourhood was downright mortifying and humiliating. Everyone would see it. Label me a tramp who couldn't keep her skirts down and jumped on the new neighbor. The said neighbour being my ex-husband and father to my son only made it worse. Everyone knew me as the sweet single mum they didn't have to worry would snatch their husband while they were not looking. At least I hoped that's how they saw me. I could picture Courtney playing the victim and painting me in a light worse than she ever has. Homewrecker? Adulteress? Mistress? God, I sighed. Why did Adrian let me sleep in? Why did he bring me to his house, period? "How hard can making one simple stop at my house and booti

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