LOVE, LIKE BLOOD

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head. "No.

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asing glint in his eyes. "I

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teeth and smirked. "Oops.

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voice lower. "Don't worry

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looked at Sebastian said

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ted. I wasn't hungry-just didn't want her th

voice low. "He's been avoidin

mposed. "He probabl

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th her fingers-her manicured

id anymore," she said quietly. "I

pond right away. His

t between two stories I

a party tonight. You should come.

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m, Noah. You can be

ill down my spine-half th

ntinued, more casually now. "It'll be

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was already low, casting warm

mostly about classes, and I gave the

mention A

he p

vening, just as the sky fa

before I saw i

y there, leaning against the frame in all bl

ng me to a party,"

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toward the hous

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. It was decent. Didn't have a

door. "You look perfect," he sa

got in. "You always s

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ce clearly had money a

en front door, where groups of student

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