Haunting-Adeline

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He stares at the pain ng with pride as if he painted it himself.“Yes,” I murmur, before turning away. I’m not going to stand there andinterpret art as if I'm not standing in a museum of depraved pain ngs. Oneglance around shows the other pain ngs are carved in subtle morbidity.I shake hands with a few people I recognize from Savior's and Pearl.Minutes later, Daniel has us all join him in the dining room, the twentyfoot-longtable set for at least twenty people.It’s not a normal set up. There are crystal glasses, white plates and a forkand knife set on a thick plas c covering. The en re middle of the table iscompletely empty. Normally, flowers and decora ons will take up space inthe middle to add a taste of class to dinners.I keep my face blank, despite my heart thudding heavily beneath myribcage.“Take a seat next to me, Zack, please,” Daniel insists, poin ng towardsthe chair to the right of him. Of course, he sits at the head of the table,smiling at his guests like a king.He leans over and mu ers to me, “I’m very excited for you to seetonight’s entrée.”I smile, and even I can feel how ice cold it is. “What would that be?” Iask.“Well, we wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise, now would we?” Dandeflects before turning his a en on to the guest on his le side.I stay silent, instead observing the guests seated around me. Everyonelooks to be at complete ease, talking amongst each other, laughing, andsmiling.As if it’s just another day, si ng at a dinner table and wai ng for a youngchild to be served.There are three exit points in the dining room. One leads into thekitchen, where there’s a back sliding door. The second leads down ahallway towards the game room and deeper into the house. The third leadsback towards the front door.I imagine the girl is in the kitchen. I don’t know if she’s already dead or ifthis will be like their rituals in the dungeon.My ques on is answered five minutes later when the kitchen dooropens, and an older man walks in, hand in hand with a li le girl no olderthan six.
Her brown eyes are wide with terror, looking upon the table like everyboogieman in her nightmares has come to life.The monsters inside her dreams were only there to show her what theylook like on the inside.“Ladies and gentlemen. Dinner is served.”
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the subject, but I did take great c
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Ripping my eyes away from the windo
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If it’s not one thing, it’s the
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I’m deep in my musings when my ey
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I press my thumb into the up arrow
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before. The hairs on the back of my
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Her sage green eyes are illuminated
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“Let’s take this to the bedroom
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the rest of his clothes are s ll th
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loca ons that won’t allow the fuc
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Par cularly about computer science
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everybody if I were short.A tall, w
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I wince from the feel of the hair-l
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If Genevieve Parsons is as wild as
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Le ng out a shaky breath, I pluck t
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my front door. And I mean, like har
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“Make it extra strong. I’m goin
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rented a dumpster, and we loaded th
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“I will,” I lie. She leaves wit
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When I was younger, Nana refused to
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“You need me to call anyone?”I
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painted on her thin lips, and icy b
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Being a real estate agent pays well
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The bed is no more, having bought m
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But I couldn’t be both a hacker a
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Right as I ready up again, one guy
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that pisses him off more.I sigh. Wi
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While Jay kept tabs, I allowed myse
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I help Sicily navigate through the
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The walls and floor are smooth blac
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But not before I shoot Daya a narro
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My phone buzzes as soon as my ass h
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“Do you want to leave?” he murm
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But the most notable part is direct
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“Fuck, baby, that’s it. Let me
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close to pissing my pants from the
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Red and blue lights brighten the wo
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look into you, but when they don’
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Chapter 9The Shadow’ve commi ed h
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Come get me, Archie.He hesitates on
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I pull into the driveway leading in
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looks as if he went five rounds in
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Cracking my neck, I take another de
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Chapter 10The Manipulatorave you he
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He waves a hand in acknowledgment b
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“I don’t know what to do, Daya,
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“Honestly, Daya, I’m a li le re
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I aim for it, sliding the door open
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due to insufficient evidence.A lot
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This was undoubtedly a crime of pas
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I find myself curling deeper into t
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Another flash of movement causes me
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fear. But also from something else.
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My strangled scream pierces the air
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I roll my eyes. “Because I manipu
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“Addie, he could s ll be here. We
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Chapter 12The Shadowhere’s anothe
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ones aren’t iden fiable. I imagin
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But no one is there, despite the pe
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The video restarts. I snarl, the cr
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Rushing over, I grab the swinging s
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Switching to the other note, it tak
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I li my hand and flip him the bird.
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It’s not un l a er I take a hot s
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in the world to happen—my body is
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Chapter 14The Manipulatoraya put so
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They treat it like a concert to avo
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release a shaky breath.I have a cho
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Chapter 15The Manipulator’m compl
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I gasp, my eyes widening and snappi
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“Mm,” he growls in delight. “
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the hallway I came from.I bolt thro
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the balls for it, but I couldn’t
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Above him, the stars are twinkling
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“Do you know what these mean?”
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seeing. What I’m feeling.Slowly,
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rips through me.I’m screaming. I
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I can never let Daya see those mark
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“No,” I say finally, refraining
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“They’re going to be a problem,
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She doesn’t know I’m hiding in
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me she gets scared, my li le mouse
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Chapter 18The ManipulatorNKNOWN: Yo
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The phone lights up with an incomin
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As if I wasn’t already burning up
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“Fuck. Off!” I shout, enuncia n
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But the tape doesn’t mask the sou
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Gently, he scrapes his teeth over t
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My eyes close against the sensa on,
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Being consumed by him feels like dr
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Chapter 19The Shadowdon’t regret
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Sighing again, I pluck the pack of
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Addie’s great-grandmother could
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She snorts. “You really think I
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are ever taken seriously anyways, w
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Immediately, he dives for cover, pu
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exactly alike when laid on their de
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I enter into what looks like a foye
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While Mark was burning his cigar on
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Addie won’t ever have to worry ab
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wary, and then resigned. Tears line
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Chapter 21The Manipulator’m stewi
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about the gun incident. I don’t t
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Maybe I just want to be able to say
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My world spins as I stumble up the
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And then I climb up on the bed, in
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I’ll never tell him how glorious
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When the last bit of cum drops from
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Chapter 22The Shadowy li le mouse d
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As Mark drones on about some bill h
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“S’all good,” I say calmly, s
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Addie shakes her head, closing her
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“Oh, I know that case!” Mark ex
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Sighing, I push out of my chair and
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wild with hunger. I’m ravenous an
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I frown. “What makes you think he
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Zade picks me up in a classic Musta
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“The hell are you doing, Zade?”
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I glare up at him, tears s ll linin
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Oh, what a fine gentleman you’re
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Ugh. The arrogance.His face turns s
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Chapter 24The Manipulators there an
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downright boring.The inside is even
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another senator. I guess the story
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Chapter 25The Shadowf I spend anoth
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The girl gets off on fear. The mome
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“If you were my li le girl, I wou
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I groan, the feel of her ass diggin
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Releasing her face, my hand dri s t
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Chapter 26The Manipulator’m seeth
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if I had to guess on what type of m
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"Now, of course, when my father tol
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told John he didn’t give a shit w
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I open my mouth, ready to pry, but
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“Because you’re not listening.
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"You trauma zed me."He leans down a
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“Or what?” he challenges. I sig
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Chapter 27The Manipulator’m just
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worse and probably end up leaving.
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me. He makes it a point to stay on
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My phone vibrates in my hand, and I
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“How did you even come into conta
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preparing for it.“He hasn’t sai
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“How can you even choose?” Daya
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more minutes to come up to the fron
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Chapter 28The Shadowucking imbecile
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“Loca on?” Jay asks, keyboard c
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Walking into this house feels like
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not en rely wrong. Except I’m onl
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Mark tries to brush off my story wi
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Con nuing on my wayward path, I con
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A er a few minutes, I’m out of br
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Another growl pings through my mout
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took it all the way, and every mors
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“You’d be okay with other peopl
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When I brush my finger ps over them
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“You like being a bad li le girl,
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“Zade, please,” I whimper, my v
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him sliding in and out between my f
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“You motherfucking ass—”He in
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She takes a deep, calming breath.
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Chapter 31The Shadowhat took you so
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“You uh, told them to stay down t
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The air whistles, my only indica on
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“You can only access it through a
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He admits he’s never seen their f
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Sibby is s ll too blind with bloodl
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He was a rich man who came from old
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Now I just have to figure out how t
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Savior’s looks like the type of c
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Dan and I mingle for the next sever
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Interes ng that they believe they c
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four government poli cians.This isn
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His hand ghtens further while my br
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Page 442 and 443: The cool air is a balm to my heated
Page 444 and 445: I laugh quietly, even as he jerks b
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Page 450 and 451: And then I’m driving into her ght
Page 452 and 453: I li my hand, gently swiping a lock
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Page 456 and 457: The whiskey in my stomach sours.Swa
Page 458 and 459: approach the altar.I stare at the l
Page 460 and 461: That was the trigger. The en re roo
Page 462 and 463: “Zade, dude, are you okay?” Pan
Page 464 and 465: Surprisingly, Mom doesn't have a sn
Page 466 and 467: My phone buzzes again, aler ng me t
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Page 471 and 472: For My ReadersWhatever this book ma
Page 473 and 474: AcknowledgmentsI feel like I have s
Page 475: About The AuthorH. D. Carlton grew
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