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Cut the Act

Cut the Act

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WpMetadataNoticeLast published Sun, May 31, 2026
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Fiction
Romance
Small town
First Love
Slow Burn
Lainey Marrows has run the local bookshop in Ridgewood for years. Starting from when she was a teenager working part-time after school. She's your common book lover, who'd rather be spending time lost in books or snuggled up with her cat, Milo. Lainey's world as she knows it stops the moment Brett Lynch comes back to town. He unravels feelings she hasn't felt for years. Why is her brother's best friend back in town? And why is he seeking her out in her bookshop?
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Valeria didn't rush. She never did. Inez was pinned beneath her, wrist locked overhead, the hold precise and impersonal. Not pain. Control. Inez scoffed anyway. "That's it?" she sneered. "I've had tutors scarier than you." Valeria said nothing. The silence pressed in. "You don't scare me," Inez added, louder. Brattier. "You just-" "Enough." One word. Flat. Final. Valeria lifted Inez's chin with two fingers, detached as a correction. "Look at me," she said coolly. "If you're going to embarrass yourself, do it properly." Inez laughed, brittle. "You think this makes you powerful?" "I don't think," Valeria replied. "I decide." Her gaze never wavered. "You provoke because it's the last control you have." "I don't belong to you," Inez snapped. Valeria leaned in, voice razor-thin. "You are my wife. You belong to consequences." She released her grip. "Say it." "No." Valeria waited. The quiet broke Inez, she hated being ignored. "...I'll behave, I'll be a good girl" Inez muttered. "Specify." Inez swallowed hard. "...I'll be your good girl" Valeria stepped back, already distant. "Good," she said. "Remember why." #1 older women-13th February (FAST PACE BOOK)

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