Defending What Matters

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♡ Shane ♡ The steady hum of the gym buzzed around me, and the rhythmic clanging of weights and the dull thud of treadmills blended into background noise. I should have been focused on my next client, but my mind was elsewhere. The guilt that had been gnawing at me for the past week only seemed to grow with each passing day. I couldn’t stop thinking about Megan. I had actively been avoiding her texts and calls while I hoped some space would help me sort out the mess in my head. But the silence wasn’t helping. In fact, it was only making things worse. Every unanswered message was a weight on my chest, and every time my phone buzzed, I felt a pang of both hope and dread. “Shane!” Caleb’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts, and I looked over to see him walking toward me with a bottle of wate

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