URGENT request to remove unwanted line feed after expansion of variable

<cfquery name="GetStory" datasource="qNEWS">
 select top 1 *
 from bnews
 where ID = '#ID#'
 and online = 1
 order by id desc
</cfquery>

<cfoutput query="GetStory">

<cfset defaultbreakpos = len(GetStory.Story_body)*.6>
<cfif NOT mid(GetStory.story_body, defaultbreakpos, 1) is " ">
  <cfset temppos = refindnocase("[\s]", reverse(left(GetStory.story_body, defaultbreakpos)))>
  <cfset breakpos = defaultbreakpos-temppos+1>
<cfelse>
  <cfset breakpos = defaultbreakpos>
</cfif>
<cfset toptext = left(GetStory.story_body, breakpos)>

#ParagraphFormat(toptext)# <a href="#GetStory.URL_LINK#" target="_blank">Read more</a>

</cfoutput>

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The "Read more" line needs to be on the same line as the last line of the story_body. As it is now, it's always moved down one line.

I don't want to remove all the line feeds in the story as they're needed. I only want to remove the last line break, if possible, or do this a different way.

Show me how to do this with my code snippet.