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gaze becomes

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on't

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f the q

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keep me he

dangerously, until our f

o leave

runs th

myself

or what his gaz

even more for kn

own, I know I'm

just my father who's t

s the

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a defensive posture. But behind this f

ant to

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stand that she can'

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tches like a

thinks he can dictate my life

ance he couldn't crush. He thinks I'll

not just

her perfume still hangs in the air, a mixture that's both bewitching and suffocatin

n't keep

into the room.

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proved

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ck me up doesn't mean