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“No,” I said quietly. “People just stopped protecting you.”
Tiffany grabbed her purse and walked out. Gerald called after her once, but she never turned around. That was the exact moment his fantasy collapsed—not when I exposed him, not when his mother judged him, but when the woman he chose over me realized there was nothing worth staying for.
His head jerked upward. “What?”
“For a while, I wondered whether the brakes failed on their own.”
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