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Thank you for downloadingthis Simon
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Dear reader,This book is a sequel t
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anything that came back to the kitc
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question I’m answering.” I focu
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The order is for a bouquet of roses
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I haven’t felt this conflicted in
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domestic violence, my lawyer said i
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daughter. And if Atlas Corrigan is
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It surprises me that he doesn’t h
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Chapter FourLilyMine and Ryle’s s
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I’m about to take another bite of
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I know the answers to these questio
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hard to make out facial features, b
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“Who doesn’t?”Every ounce of
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What is he doing here?And why does
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“Keys. I accidentally brought the
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“I want to help you uncomplicate
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In Allysa’s idea of a perfect wor
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He shrugs. “Kinda.”The discussi
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Chapter EightLilyIt’s almost 9:30
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“You don’t look exhausted.”I
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won’t embarrass me too much. “W
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bedroom window back then, because a
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Chapter NineAtlas“Let me see a pi
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My phone begins to buzz in my pocke
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“Yeah. Both restaurants are close
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restaurant overnight was contained
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months ago, since it happens every
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Chapter ElevenAtlasI wanted the day
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“I have a present for you,” she
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myself. “Up until last week, it w
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uses bottled water to brush his tee
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mean to write as much as I do, but
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Chapter TwelveLily“I can’t beli
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one day, that one meal, that part o
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She left the door open for me while
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All I did was ask to move home. I d
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city and ordering burgers has been
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“A redo of what?”“This date.
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Ryle is still staring at the televi
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stairwell. I take a nervous step ba
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“Everything would be so much easi
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“Oh.” His eyes dart around, as
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Chapter ThirteenAtlasIt’s amazing
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She leans back against her seat, re
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“Go back there in case he shows u
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Chapter FourteenLilyI’ve been out
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I blame Ryle for that. He took what
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Maybe that’s why I feel more prot
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years being a teenager and then it
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My father said I’d shamed our who
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There’s still a youthfulness to t
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“My house. I have a room for you
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life. You have to either figure out
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I close the door and go find my pho
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“That’s why my mother tried cal
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Chapter SeventeenAtlasJosh doesn’
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Josh doesn’t look at me. He scoot
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The Risemore Inn is clear on the ot
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I urge him forward. “Go to the ca
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“We’re not going.”“What?”
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“He’s not, really. Not to me.
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I immediately blush, and that makes
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Chapter NineteenAtlasI have no idea
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About an hour later, the kitchen is
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Chapter TwentyLilyIt’s challengin
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fingers through it. He opens his mo
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Atlas is so angry, but this is an a
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Chapter Twenty-OneAtlasThere have b
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“It’s fine!” I hear Theo yell
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my head, and of course it snags in
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Every part of my body feels like it
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- Page 242 and 243: About the AuthorCOLLEEN HOOVER is t
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