Chapter 22
Valerie Will
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“Can you believe that he threatened to kill himself if I sign the papers?” I said to Celeste as I collapsed on the chair opposite her.
Her eyes grew wide in shock. “What? Is he trying to emotionally blackmail you or what?” She crossed her arms around her chest.
I couldn’t help but laugh even though my chest felt like a knife was piercing through it. “I made it clear to him that his emotional blackmail wouldn’t work.”
Celeste stared at me, her eyes filled with sympathy. “How do you feel?”
I rolled my eyes. “I feel like s**t. It’s a good thing I don’t have to go to work this week or I would have been f****d up.”
“You’re a strong woman, you know that, right?”
I shrugged my shoulders.
I wasn’t sure that there was anything strong about me. I was hurt
