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THERE IS NO DEVIL
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CONTENTSSoundtrack1. Mara2. Cole3.
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THERE IS NO DEVIL OFFICIAL SOUNDTRA
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Cole is the most observant person I
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“I don’t want to be hungry whil
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“There’s nothing horrifying abo
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It’s flattering.I’m an exotic c
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The orgasm is as hot and pounding a
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Cole is trying to drag me down this
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“No.” He pushes me back down on
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“Where is everyone?” I whisper
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And that really fucking scares me.
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embroidered bell-bottom jeans …I,
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shifting within his pocket as he ma
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Nobody wanted me to achieve anythin
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Her excitement ignites mine like a
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Her tight little nipples poke out,
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“Yes,” Mara says softly, withou
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Many people have believed they knew
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“Yes,” Sonia laughs. “And lik
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“He was … in the car?”“That
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Her eyes flick down to the Tesla pu
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“You want me to tell you informat
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She sputters, holding up her hands.
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She loves to be praised—she can
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her. Her skin and hair glows with h
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“That’s my uncle. He was twelve
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“You’re not like that,” Mara
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“What made you start drawing?”
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pretending not to notice. I let him
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Mara makes a faint choking sound. H
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It makes me want to bite her back.
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MARA
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off the glossy black Steinway, I wa
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“Maybe she knows Mara’s a littl
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face. She laughed wildly, head thro
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I’m hoping this will appease him.
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That helps a little.I labor away on
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bubbling water.The noodles bend and
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morning, afternoon, and evening. Ju
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Then she says, “Punish her some o
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After twenty minutes or so, I hear
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I used to imagine my dad might be t
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Then I wait, hoping he’s not goin
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Randall scoffs. “Drawin’ pictur
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“You might be right,” I say in
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“What did you bring?”“The blu
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The producer gives me a brief rundo
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“It just looked like you were thi
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“I’ve done exactly what I want
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He doesn’t respond, pushing the l
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Cole appears in the camera frame, s
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“FUCK Mara!” Randall snarls.
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Or Shaw becomes less predictable wh
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high-minded simply because we were
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“Alastor hadn’t developed his o
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show.“I stayed after class on Mon
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enforce his narrative that I was ta
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“I dumped his body down the shaft
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“You didn’t want me for my look
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Mara swallows hard.“I can do it,
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MARACole and I have made our plan.W
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The wind whips our hair into our fa
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“What’s that supposed to mean?
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Her arms are bare, the long scars r
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“Don’t worry about that—he’
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She looks up at me quizzically. “
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So intent am I on sprinting ahead o
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In the moment that his head is turn
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music thudding and people laughing.
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I step out into the clearing, slowl
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We agreed that he’d give me the s
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taste …”I think he turned down
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Where is he? Where am I? How do I g
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Shaw is bigger, stronger. Cole is f
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snow spiraling around us. He kisses
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That’s what makes me cum. Not the
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MARA
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finally found me.They couldn’t qu
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She prefers to be the one showing u
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She takes it, saying, “Where’s
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“You spiked my drink?”Color ris
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I watch her squirm and buck, her fa
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I put Sonia in charge of the whole
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EPILOGUE
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Had I come here in my twenties, as
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IF YOU LIKED THE PUSH/PULL BETWEEN
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