After I Stopped Clinging to My Arranged Husband, He Became the Needy One
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The night I learned I wasn't a Mercer by blood, I stopped calling my husband every hour to ask when he'd be home. Graham Vale and I had married to join two old-money families, and I'd spent three years believing my place beside him depended on being the daughter the Mercers had promised. So I packed my things, made a plan to leave, and secretly fostered the scruffy puppy Graham had f*******n in our house. I expected him to be relieved when I stopped following him from room to room. Instead, he began showing up wherever I went, asking questions he'd never asked before and looking at me as if I were the one pulling away. But when the reason we married disappears, can either of us tell the difference between wanting me and needing the alliance?
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I didn't go back to the Vale house that night.
I went to the apartment, walked Otis, and sat by the window while the rain blurred the harbor lights. Graham didn't call. I was grateful and disappointed in equal measure.
The next morning, I took Otis to the rescue center. Jo had found a family who wanted to meet him. A couple with a……
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