Raising The Child Of My Ruin

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ther herself before she felt

still

except now, there was a cup of coffee in his han

even

easing Leon onto the bed b

air and finally met Cassian's stare.

coffee, unbothered.

he one who showed up at my door in the middle of the ni

f I had another choic

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unresolved history. The past clawed at her, m

hed the

e limbs before turning back to the man who

, his expression unread

s unsettled her. Maybe because

iting for her

ore stepping into the bathroom

dressed in an oversized sweater

r good. But then she spotted the note on the k

ck. Don't

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ant b

it, but the exhaustion pressing into her bones won. Wit

ctly how s

n h

tomach, she turned back toward the bedr

verything

er than to believe i

n never left w

n he ca

ng would