A Bitter Pill Called Regret

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his eyes before he turned back to S

iting console, the click of the keyboar

ler sauntered over,

ping with false sweetness. "Marcus has told

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hame. He needs someone with energy,

precise, desi

start behind my eyes, a wa

needing air, needing to escape the suffoca

s a bitter pill, s

when I got home, his

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