CHAPTER 29

  "Thank you for being there for me," Leandre said.

  "Of course, not always, but I'm always available if you need someone to talk to."

  "Where is he now? Did he go home with them or is he still at your house?" Emerald inquired, seemingly out of the blue.

  "I sent her home because I found out the other day that she has a child from a previous relationship and she isn't telling me," Emerald explained.

  "That's it? How did you know? She's a liar?"

  "Her father came into the office, and I took him home, and they both met. She was yelling at her father for taking the child, so I heard everything they were saying, and she knelt to apologize to me, but I don't care because we're separated," Leandre explained.

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  "So it appears he agreed to marry you to absolve her of responsibility for the child?"

  "That's correct. It's better that it happened so that we won't be together any longer," Leandre explained.