FEISTY AND FROSTY

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nted their lives to cross pat

ed his stare and strong jaw, and it ma

mory she couldn't link t

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ooming thunder made the cott

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as she tried to

because another loud sound happe

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t and ran to explore

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hingles fell into

and warning creak

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round them as they

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ouch right now," he wave

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splitting

on't have a warm bed to sleep in, and yo

ht.

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no reactio

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the wind

heir worl

ence, something

preferred bar, Gavin Rhodes had his glass of

lena in his mind while looking at the

scattered when she

oved to a dif

the same way a ghost can

wh

lurking in his mind and

ing their friends, people from the same industry, and others

ank spaces in n

tightly while his an

gst and his true feelings

e and I'm not ev

continued to hold on

n by a woman. It

ne's contacts to f

ssed a message to a person whos

any informati

she now

tared at the ceiling while waiting fo

d out the answer

responses. Darkness spread around h

r modern office with the windows provid

kept tapping her fingers

ing and she doesn't really rea

appeared on her brow a

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d tough action are

on and none of

ttle and ran her ha

it was something s

iding?" she sa

ched by Gavin, it was Liam's unexpl

any leads, then there

to be kind and mercil

track h

serious. She s

Liam try to react,

emies. And I'm still deter

eping, showing a message

eleased so far. She is being

have not seen anything ou

of him as his frustr

n and dissolve into th

essage came in a

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me, I don

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history of being ob

gone, He would look in every poss

lized that some debts h