Bogus Billionaire By Shining Riviera

Caroline shook her head. “What are you thinking? I’m only giving an example. It’s been a few months since I married Kirk, I think. I’ve met his family too. But for some reason, I feel like the person I know isn’t the real him. It’s just a persona he’s showing me.”

Gwen replied, “Maybe you’ll get to know him more if you spend more time together.”

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“Maybe.” Caroline half–heartedly put her hair up.

“Enough, let’s not talk about this anymore. Let’s drink!”

Gwen raised her glass and was about to clink it with Caroline’s. But then her gaze fell on Caroline’s neck. “Carol, what happened to your neck?”

It didn’t look like a hickey. On the contrary, it looked like someone had throttled her.

Caroline remembered the marks and put her hair back down.

“It’s nothing.”

“Is Kirk abusing you?” Gwen sprung up as she said this. “I’ll kill him!”

“Calm down.” Caroline pulled at Gwen.

“It has nothing to do with Kirk. It was Eddy.”

look for him!” Gwen grabbed a beer bottle and headed for the

fine. You’re drunk.

Her body swayed. Feeling awful, she slumped in

this, she waited until Gwen finished before

past. Gwen finally felt a

Caroline in pain. “Why did that asshole

Gwen

slumped against Caroline’s shoulder and sobbed. “Carol, my poor Carol. If Kirk dares do anything bad to you, I’ll

she said this, a pair of long legs

was hallucinating until a low voice sounded in her ear. It was then that she

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get that chance.”

over to Sean behind him. Then, he pulled Caroline over and looked her up and down. His gaze settled on the bright red marks on her fair

neck,

“Eddy did this?”

Caroline froze. Then, she turned to look

car. By the looks of it,

looked

you here?”

“Answer me.”