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PlaylistHish- EvilSo Below- SwayBoy
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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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I scoff. “I’m not jealous. Let
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to get my answers and finish them o
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“You kill people o en?”She’s
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Sighing internally, I decide to thr
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Sibby happily prances towards them
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They’ll be saving me the trouble
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Chapter 32The Shadowibby took the f
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“Nope,” he replies, popping the
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insists the loud clicking brings hi
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black eyebrows set low over dark ey
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need to show proof.And I’ll be da
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Chapter 33The Manipulatorhe light f
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Looking around fran cally, I tear a
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stumble away from him and towards e
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I can’t see him, but that doesn
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fucking children and get off on it.
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His words create a visceral reac on
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Chapter 34The Manipulator’ve neve
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I’m too lost in the moment to car
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He marked me relentlessly so many m
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anything else but how much I want h
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His mismatched eyes pin me against
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And then he pulls back once more be
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“Fuck, Addie, fuck,” he grinds
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While I was drinking overpriced whi
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My fingers trail across her freckle
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“Torture them,” she easily gues
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this?”Her tone isn’t laced with
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can tell you that I will try. But w
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I take a step back, a rac ng both o
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As if that wasn’t fucking bad eno
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“Dick,” I mu er, increasing her
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Gigi seems to be curled in on herse
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She shi s. “A broken heart. He di
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It takes her a minute, but she fina
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Jay stays quiet, seeming to realize
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“Make sure the men are watching o
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“I want your eyes on Addie tonigh
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Her brown eyes are wide with terror
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“I had some tes ng and research o
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One says it’s a match, and anothe
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“Peace, baby. All I want is peace
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The pleasure builds as I swirl my s
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breaks my heart. Her eyes are swirl
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“Daniel,” I snap, catching his
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They’re false agents to begin wit
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Chapter 40The Shadowdon’t remembe
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the oxygen from my lungs, and I’v
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“Now move,” I rasp out, my cont
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I lose myself. My name. My iden ty.
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Chapter 41The Shadowou ready for to
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weren’t authorized to kick down m
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"This another newcomer?" a nasally
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They could be from the Society.In f
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Absolute carnage is consuming that
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Chapter 42The Manipulatorre you sur
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I turn and stare out at the window
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Who the fuck is a er me? It could b
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