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The Me I Used to Be The Me I Used to Be by Jennifer Ryan
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“I think I have for a long time.”
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“I’ve been waiting for you.”
Jennifer Ryan, The Me I Used to Be
“It’s well over ten thousand now.”
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“Rhea’s heart warmed. Things were getting back to normal.”
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“the one fact that will always be true. I love you,”
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“It is not okay.”
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“Rhea would have been angry to learn the truth, but they’d have gotten through it.”
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“At the very least they could have shared the burden and worked out a way to help Evangeline, even if only to support her decision to take the fall,”
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“If only he’d confided in her, trusted in her love”
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“The anger she’d shown Evangeline didn’t compare to the rage she directed at Richard’s ghost.”
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“Even as angry as Rhea had been, she’d never wanted her daughter to be attacked like that. Never.”
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“Rhea hadn’t said anything at the funeral when Chris talked about how Evangeline got the scars on her body. At the time, she’d thought her daughter deserved to suffer for what she’d put them through”
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“Joey had been so caught up in his own need to get the respect and appreciation he deserved, he hadn’t looked close enough at his sister to see the pain and anguish she was in.”
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“He held Evangeline’s gaze, silently letting her know all she was doing was putting off the inevitable. And if she didn’t come to that conclusion soon, he’d push. Because if she didn’t sign the contract, she’d find that maybe he wasn’t so willing to break his back working for everybody when he could go to work for someone else and support his family without worrying about the rest of them.”
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“Because, though Lindsey skimmed over it, the fact of the matter was that he needed help and support and he hadn’t found it from his family, so he needed to go to an outside source.”
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“She hadn’t been welcomed home. If you can’t count on family, how can you count on anyone?”
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“Lindsey put her hand on Evangeline’s arm as she walked toward the hallway. “We want you to feel welcome.”
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“Instead, she’d had to save his son for him to even consider letting her off the hook for what she’d done.”
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“Leave it.” Lindsey wiped her hands on a dish towel. “Let her see how even a small mess in this tiny place makes it hard to move around without stepping on or tripping over a toy. Let her see how we live and that we deserve better.”
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“Well, my mind is set on revenge. Darren stuck me in that cell. He took four years of my life. He made my father worry and hurt because he tried to take him down. He made my family turn their backs on me.”
Jennifer Ryan, The Me I Used to Be
“Next time, she wanted someone who put her first. Someone who did things to make her happy.”
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“No one wanted her to forget or escape what she’d done. They wanted her to live with it. They wanted to remind her of it every time she did something they didn’t like or agree with. They wanted to hold it over her head forever.”
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“I made it my business to know.”
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“Chris hooked his hand around her forearm and applied gentle pressure to let her know he was there.”
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“The four years”
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“Why are you limping?” She didn’t answer. “Are we going, or not?”
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“because when you were alone no one could hurt you.”
Jennifer Ryan, The Me I Used to Be