The Devoted
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"Can we talk?" He suddenly asked, deciding to break the silence between us.
"About what?" I managed to say, my voice hoarse from all the crying I did over the past few days.
"You've changed...What happened?" He said like everything was absolutely fine. I chuckled distastefully at his stupid question.
"I had to sit back and watch you be with her all this time and I didn't have a fucking clue. Now you tell me, would you be the same after that?" I bit back the tears that seemed so persistent to fall. I didn't dare look at him, afraid that I'd get lost once again in those green orbs that I never thought would grown to love.
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Sage Saunders is used to the pain. She has learned to lived with it. Ever since her beloved father died, her so called mother changed and began hurting her, making her live with a fifty-year-old man. She decides to escape from hell her mother was making her enter. During her escape, she bumps into a man that she thought would be a keeper and as she grew up, lies and hidden secrets will one by one be unveiled.
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