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"I’e, too Doesn’t help when you’re sleeping with a younger "

"Wes? Is he alive?" Nora asked the question she’d been afraid to even utter in her own mind But she had to know

"Oh, oui We barely touched him Andrei is well-trained He kno tohi them, I mean But he follows orders well You see, your fiancé is actually iot his attention, I promise" Nora offered a silent prayer of thanks to God that Marie-Laure hadn’t killed Wesley One thing to be grateful about today Wes was alive and so was shefor now

"Handsoer man Very handsome But no one is as handsoreed

"Once I thought if my husband loved me, I’d never desire anyone else on earth How could I when I had him? And yet, you have his love but have run off with another"

"It’s complicated"

"I see that Go on I’m all ears"

"What? You want me to tell you about my love life?"

"Tell er could feed a third-world country for a year"

"Only a very s?"

"It’s a rock," Nora said "Literally Diaround with a shovel Wes ravel"

"That’s a rather rare and large bit of rock And you must have liked it if you accepted it, non?"

Nora set her jaw tight and glared at Marie-Laure Everything within her rebelled at talking about her Wesley with this woman She didn’t even deserve to say Wesley’s naood friend"