Jake sent Lily to my side.
Mark said, “Lily is my daughter! Why are you
interfering?”
“You knew Lily was your daughter?”
“What did you do when Lily was sick? When
she was getting beat up?”
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“You don’t deserve to be her father.”
Mark tried to explain, but he couldn’t.
He wasn’t there when she needed him.
“I made a mistake. I’ll change. Please give me
another chance.”
Mark was crying.
“You used to love me so much. How can you
stop so easily?”
Jake asked, “Don’t listen to him. Men always
lie when they cry.”
I walked up to Mark.
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Mark was waiting for me to take him back,
but I slapped him.
“I did love you but eight years of being a
single parent killed it.”
“I can never forgive you!”
Mark ran away.
He needed another woman for comfort.
The investigator sent me a picture of Mark
and Carol together.
I could use it to stop Mark from getting
custody.
A cheating dad wasn’t fit to raise a child.
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I won the court case.
Mark didn’t care. He said, “I’m going to win
you back.”
Every day he sent me flowers and gifts.
I threw them away.
Everyone at the hospital said that I was
getting courted by a rich man.
Jake has been distant, afraid that I will be
stolen.
I asked Jake why he was avoiding me.
He said, “I don’t want to come between you
and Mark.”
“You what are you talking about.”
I grabbed his collar and kissed him.
Jake froze. I said, “Are you still afraid of
pushing me away?”
“No!” Jake grinned. “One more time.”
“What!”
We started seeing each other.
One day, I said, “Jake, why did you like me?”
Jake blushed. “I liked you the first time I saw
you.”
He stared into my eyes.
“I regret not stealing you from Mark.”
“I’m glad he didn’t appreciate you, so I could
have you.”
When people like someone, they want to be
around them all the time.
Jake really loved me.
Before, I didn’t have a healthy relationship.
I was getting another check–up when Carol
said, “You must be thrilled now.”
I said, “You should be careful. Otherwise, your
cancer might turn into a more lethal type.
She tried to hit me, but she slapped herself
and cried.
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“I told her to stop and stay away from you!”
Carol rushed into Mark’s arms.
“Sarah hurt me because she has a boyfriend.
“So I…”
She said that to make herself look good.
Mark heard the word “boyfriend“.
“You’re with someone else?”
Carol said, “He always takes care of me!”
Mark couldn’t hear anything.
He grabbed my arm so hard that he almost
“Sarah, how can you just love someone else?”
I tried to get away, but then Jake hugged me.
“Security. This man is being aggressive.
Please take him away.”
Jake took me to his territory.
Mark was held down.
I couldn’t believe it.
Mark gave up being a doctor and started
working at the hospital.
He was popular at school, so he got a lot of
attention here too.
But he only cared about me.
I wasn’t happy. I was annoyed.
Jake was insecure.
He asked me to tell him that I loved him.
I saw him and wrapped him with my arm.
One night I took his hand.
“Jake, Let’s get married.”
Jake didn’t know what to say.
After a few seconds, he started putting on his
clothes. I thought I’d scared him off.
He put my clothes on me.
“The courthouse opens at nine. I’m going to
Later, I asked him why he was in a rush.
He said, “I just wanted to tie you to me.”
