John Miller
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Tom smiled as he watched Jamal, who sat at the edge of the bed watching him sip from the glass of cold juice while telling him all about his day. Jamal had insisted that Lucy massage his foot, but Tom had playfully declined, not wanting to put Lucy in an awkward position. "We will be going home after grandpa gets better," Jamal announced, and the smile disappeared from both Lucy's and Tom's faces. "Already?" Tom asked, and Jamal bobbed his head. "I'm going to miss you," Lucy said, and Jamal's brows…-
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After dinner, Lucy decided to go home with Tom rather than join the rest of the family as she had done when coming. Once they got into the car, the tension that had hung between them all day took over the car, and neither of them said a word to each other as Tom drove behind his family. Lucy said nothing as she tried to compose her thoughts and put her words together so that she wouldn't make any more mistakes, while Tom simply kept mute because he just didn't want to speak. "I'm sorry," Lucy said after…
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Lucy had never felt more uncomfortable in her life than she did when she walked into the reserved part of the restaurant where they had made the dinner reservation for the evening. In the middle of the room, there was a round table with eight chairs around it, and Tom was already seated with his grandfather chatting and sipping from a glass of wine by the time the rest of them joined them. Lucy tried not to let her face give away her emotion when she met Tom's gaze. Tom was slightly taken aback when she…
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Anita and Tiffany sat on the two single sofas in Bernice's private hospital room as they watched her unconscious form, with an oxygen mask over her face. She seemed pale and nothing like the gracious hostess she had been when she welcomed them into her home just the previous day. Neither of them had said a word to each other since Anita joined Tiffany in the room after Adam and Jackson had been escorted out of the hospital by the guards. Tiffany still looked visibly shaken and pale as she sat there,…
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Lucy sighed as she looked around her bedroom and paced the entire length. It seemed like forever since she had last spent time there, and though the apartment was hers, it felt foreign to her. She had spent more time in Tom's house than in her own apartment since she moved to Ludus. She had jumped at the opportunity to move to Ludus when she received her promotion because she wanted to get out of Heden for a change and live alone. She had wanted to live independently as an adult without having to live…
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As Lucy sat in the cab on her way to Tom's house, different thoughts ran through her mind. What was going on? Why was Tom being so cold all of a sudden? Even if her action earlier had upset him, wasn't he taking things too far? He had not even given her a chance to tell him about her decision to go for therapy before blowing her off. Was he getting tired of her already? If he was behaving this way over the phone, how was he going to act towards her at home? She wrung her hands in distress as she thought…
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Tom didn't know how long he had spent working on the documents on his desk and reviewing company records but he glanced at his phone when it started ringing and he picked it up when he saw that it was his father, "Hey, dad!" "Your mother just informed me about dinner. Do you think it's a good idea to have dinner here? I mean, Lucy's parents are here. Are you both ready for that step yet?" Desmond asked, and Tom's brows pulled together. "What step?" "If your grandfather meets Lucy's family that sort of…
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Alone in his office, Tom listened patiently to the recording which Barry had just sent him. It was the conversation between Anita and Lisa which confirmed to Tom that Anita now knew about her mother's affair with her brother-in-law and that Bernice had confessed to Tiffany. That at least explained the change in Anita's attitude and why she was trying to go against their mother. Maybe she wasn't so terrible after all. What Tom did not understand now was what he was supposed to do. Because from the looks…
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Inside Harry's office, he and Jade assessed the young lady who had been found to impersonate Candace. Her name was Crystal, she was twenty-seven years old, she had brown eyes, and although her hair wasn't as curly or gold as Candace's hair, she looked beautiful and was good enough to pass as Sara's daughter. She was dressed in ripped jeans trousers and a blue t-shirt on which 'I Don't Suck Pussies' was written on the front. Jade found it funny, but Harry thought it was crude. "So? What do you think?"…
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"Mother, I think you should leave," Tiffany said quietly, still feeling shaken by all that Anita had revealed. What shocked Tiffany most was the fact that their mother had known about Bernice's affair with her husband, and didn't do anything to stop it, but instead had used the information to blackmail Bernice into staying silent. Thinking of her mother as such a person sent chills down her spine. It was scary. She couldn't imagine how Bernice must have felt not only being betrayed by her own mother but…
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