“I wish I had the luxury of forgetting. I would love to wipe the moment that worm mocked me for my inability to have children. But I can’t. Did you forget about telling her that, too? What other secrets of mine did you whisper into her greedy ears?” Briar let her words hit him like blows. Wincing at her tone, sharp as a whip. “I know what it must have looked like, and I regret bringing her at all. I wasn’t thinking. But Nicole is nothing to me but a friend, an old friend. I slipped into old patterns and confided in her a few months ago when stress was eating me up. She was there when I needed
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