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hope leave him.

“In every way that matters,” he repeated.

Valerie reached for him. “Listen to me.”

He stepped back.

She stopped.

“I loved you,” Alexander said.

Valerie looked wounded. “I love you too.”

“No,” he said. “You loved the version of me you could use.”

Her face hardened.

“Don’t act like you were some innocent victim,” she snapped. “You wanted the perfect continue reading …