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the ceiling like it had the answers, she couldn't shake the taste of him. The way his lips had moved with a kind

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I came here to apolo

fix," she said col

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hen h

-

Night – Cole'

lf in with the key he'd given her

couch as she entered,

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drink,"

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action. That you'll get bored an

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use some part of her- the part that still beli

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