Women Who Rise
Psychological Drama · fiction

The Equity They Could Not Take

The cigarette hissed against my cashmere sweater, and for one impossible second, my mind refused to understand what my body already knew. Pain came next. Sharp. Hot. Immediate. I screamed. My six-month-pregnant belly jerked away instinctively, but I couldn’t move far because my husband, Ryan Mercer, had both of my wrists trapped in his hands....

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Genre
Psychological Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Women Who Rise

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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