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Honor. Courage. Commitment
Sometimes you should go on your gut instinct; that little voice that tells you to tells you what your heart says.
I have come to learn that if I have done something that does not feel right, then it ended up not being right.
What else I have learned is not to trust another man around your wife, well, least of all one that she was married to.
Now there are two big mistakes that I have made in the past day…
One…I nearly killed a man.
Two…I trusted my wife to come near this man.
So as he is lying here, I would love to punch him, but I know around the corner I have a very eager Harrison and Isabella that is waiting to hear what he has got to say. And secondly…I really don't want to go down for assault as well.
It is one thing making a mistake, yet another thing to keep making it.
Now, Brendan is nearly boiling over from his own anticipation as he cannot get the words out of his mouth, so to p
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