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the lounge. The noise vibrated in time in her chest as she fo
orner, she froze in place
blood. His sleeves had been raised, his shoulders tensing, and his muscles in his lower arm tensing as he
felt unco
other step
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oke the silence.
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shot taken at
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lowed ha
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reaction. "Even still think your dad's
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laugh. "In his best int
other chill of fear
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over her. "That is the part which
in haughty insolen
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ear came
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asleep on the couch until she felt
a room filled with soft light
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is voice cause
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ative. But possibly she had believed there weren't
f whoever is after your father wishes to kill me
me in rapid,
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he co
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terrupted the
tensing as he reached for a gun
art raced. "W
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