Hiding His Twins From The Underboss

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s from me, a stat

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ading to the

going to

very place Ben used to admire in the d

rm with a lie I hadn't known was a lie.

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out the entire

d corner table and gestured

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so I hid them beneath the

ell, Addiso

name as if i

sked, hating the wa

d a crystal glass of water to his lips. "

I whispered, desperate to

rd la

ess sound that scrap

ily," he declared. "I do not have ci

candlelight dancing i

ddison. And in my world

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saw a flash of somethi

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id. "You saved my l

k envelope across th

said. "Enough to buy a ne

nt your mon

envelope ba

, a muscle feathe

d. "To play house in a shack? To pr

voice gaining strength. "If we

oing anywhere,

ly and stalked

hind my chair, his pre

ng the shell of my ear, sending

rapist," he murmure

it," I sai

no room for argument. "Because if you don

d snap

bout the

on my mantle. It is a fragile thing, Addison. On

dn't," I

"And watch what happens to the only

ed up, adjust

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ed at th

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hand as he che

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the

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sing ink and a needle in the dim ligh

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m, my heart break

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