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"My parents love you They’re standing by us" Daniel put his hands on her shoulders and peered into her eyes "It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks You and I know the truth, and we love each other We don’t need anything else"

Yes, they loved each other, and she didn’t kno she could go on without feeling his love But because she loved him, she had toruined his life

With a sad sh Don’t you understand? As long as this story is out there uncontested, nothing will ever be right"

"They will retract it"

"When?" sheBy the look on his face he knew it too

Daniel sighed "I don’t know Soon"

"I’h I think we et married" When the words were out, her heart clenched painfully, and she knehat true pain felt like: as if so her heart into thin strips

"Not get married?" Daniel stared at her in shock

"This relationship was doomed from the start"

"Doomed?" he repeated "Don’t say that!"

"It started with a lie and spiraled downhill fro or sos so shaky she ondering if she would collapse if she took a step

Daniel grabbed her ar up at the sao! Don’t make this any harder than it already is," she demanded softly "I can’t marry you This scandal will eventually destroy your life, your reputation, your business And I could never live withthat I’m responsible for it I can’t carry that burden"

Because it would be hard enough to care for their child on her own To raise it without it ever finding out what her mother had done To love it so much that it would never know of the father’s love she was depriving her child of