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PROLOGUE

Justine

I Didn’t Hear No Bell

“You really need to see this, Justie”

“What is it?”

“Jacob just purchased a seventeen-!”

My breath caught in istered what Morapevine that Jacob purchased an elaborate mansion for Destiny and her kids But as that bit of news broadcasted in the Miami Herald for all to see?

“That house belongs to you,” Mohts like a knife “She doesn’t deserve a da, Jacob would be my son in law by now…” she rambled on

I hummed to block her out

Sitting in a pear green, Baroque antique chair reading thenews, Mommy wore a flawless up do With her ht as a board, she sat prim and proper in her seat as she talked to me

Everyone bragged about how I mirrored her cover model beauty and trim physique If I was so perfect, why didn’t I have the only roomed to live in matrimony ould soon be another woman’s husband

“I can’t Mo it in my face,” I said I couldn’t even say their nae