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Flashback — Three Years Ago — Arlo Frantz

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I sat quietly inside the car while I watched over her.

She was walking slowly, pacing outside one of the luxury stores I own as if deciding whether she would come in or not.

I noticed how heavy her shoulders looked, her uneven steps and her eyes that were dull and sunken.

Kerri.

The only light I would ever chase after. Never too far to forget but never too close to interfering in this life she chose: to become a pitiful secret wife by a man who’s ashamed of her existence.

“Sir, you have a meeting with the congressman...