Who We Were Before
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Lorenzo Mancini is cold, heartless and ruthless, in the business world he's known as always being merciless and unfeeling in the boardroom. Until a chance encounter with a woman with the most mesmerizing eyes catches his attention. Aella, she's the light to his darkness, the other half to his soul. He never thought he'd meet the love of his life, never thought he'd fall in love with her so quickly and deeply. She's his obsession and his world, he plans on spending his life with her, getting married and having children, however he's hiding something that could possibly destroy her. He didn't plan on her finding out his secret, although he should've known that all truths have a way of coming to light. When Aella leaves him he didn't know that she had a secret of her own.
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