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d like a man
he stopped pretending they weren't. He stood in her doorway at two in the morning with blood o
d back and
o you have?
ving room, checking the window, the lock on the back
liste
was tight enough to bruise. His eyes found hers
for anyone but me. Don't answer your phone. Don't go out
e scar
led her closer
ecause she could feel the fear coming off him in waves and it
arms. Stepped bac
't undo," he sai
fore she could a
icked shut
ade down the corridor and felt the particular dread of a person who under
phone in her hand and did not call anyone because Damien had asked her
assed. Th
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te. The sound of a fist th
e body w
e dark and pressed her ear to
and flat, stripped of anything r
id no
with weight in it. "This goes eas
le who intended for ease didn't kno
hed for
came off
d into her apartment and the air that came in with them was wrong. Cold in a way that had nothing to do with temp
a r
That was a
rossed the room without crossing it, and she hit h
look
that glowed faintly in the darkness, gold-ringed and wrong in a
were n
was flat. Final.
e said. Her voice
it with the boredom of a man reading a list he had read before.
know wher
kn
ng me make
ver her face. "You're wh
ling her apartment with their cold wrong presence. At t
for th
dn't m
ried out and the sounds of the city fell away behind her and she forced herself to breathe through
ear. The blond man.
l decide what
aid no
trembled i
low and escalating, the sound carrying warning in it, carrying grief, carrying th
had come
already too
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