A $50,000 Wedding Demand, Three Lawyers, And The Door That Changed Everything

Let’s have dinner. Just us. Casual.

That word—casual—hooked my eyes and held them. It didn’t belong to us anymore. Not after the last conversation we’d had. Not after the silence that followed.

My thumb hovered over the keyboard, the ghost of a reply forming. Sure. When? Where? Something neutral, something that didn’t expose the knot in my chest.

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