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few seconds, she'd been able to picture herself stepping outside,
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pression hardened. T
someone
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Reid's chair while the older man drank and watched the younger wome
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looked at
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eyes return
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to this. I'm not
id before the man could answer.
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te is here somewhere, and th
oved betw
iation because you're entertaining this nonsense.
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ced toward th
ge would have
happened
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expression. He straightened hi
sted enou
her bag knocking
e me. But you know I have
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take
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red at the
do you think
the room wit
the scarf around her wrist. She tried to straighten
ward her, and
and s
ved. Then he lowered it, offerin
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her good
nough that she could finally stop chec
is men retrieved her
ther snapped. "You can't break int
the man who had f
tsi
he Beta was already backing away, one hand
a hurr
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stepped
but she's my daughter. Nobody takes
him, leaving no room fo
to put her in an
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to describe a perfectly
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finished dis
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