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to honor me, to stand beside me, squeezed my hand under the table and leaned close.
“Please don’t make a scene,” he whispered.
Five words that cut deeper than anything Dominic had said all night. I froze my fork halfway to my mouth.
“Don’t make a scene.”
I’d spent 29 years not making scenes, so I did what I’d always done. I smiled, stayed quiet, let them continue reading …
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