Never His True Bride
1 For seven years, I was the woman standing in Derek Hayes’s shadow. And for seven years, the world decided I was the sh...
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1 For seven years, I was the woman standing in Derek Hayes’s shadow. And for seven years, the world decided I was the sh...
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