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so alive, just days

ince myself to drop it. I'd come to Blackwood Industries to work off

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realized I'd even

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n't here long. Quiet guy. But... sharp. Smart. Got pulled

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he and Ja

ust... aware. "And I get it. Jason's... magnetic. Dangerous, i

it was

amn wa

feel it: I wasn't the first person to ask questions about Eli

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he floor-to-ceiling window, one hand wrapped loosely around a crystal tumbler of something

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ade hi

d around him. I didn't want to feel it. I wanted to be angry, to demand answers, but instead I stood th

testing the space between predator and prey. "You've been dig

around here weren't so damn se

said, low. "You think poking in

something. And I think you're pissed

s when

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his mouth was just inches from mine. Our chests almost touched. His eyes bur

're doing," Jason said,

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ression shuttering behind t

't understand," he said coldl

stepped away, leaving the air thi

rs tight, his control perfectly intact, while I stood there