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feel his body stiffen next to me. "This isn't fe

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but I couldn't. My fee

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us. "Don't move. One

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as co

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hard said. Black stream was on

oning your wife

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attention. Then Ethan. I had le

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that Dorian will completely destroy this city if he

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lap and sat numbly in t

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actua

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m a glance

and squeezed it. "

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have question

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seat nex

arm to touch my f

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nod. "I un

grin. "But it's in

silent fo

a gentle sn

nd my waist. I closed my eye

my head a

him to

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omeone

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remaine

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re you discussing

suppose he found out how to d

slowly. "You m

" she said. "

hand to

, since that he has betrayed our agreement by returni

touch Lila-"

rrupted hi

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line

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feet. "After

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screen, the war

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as a

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focused

voice the

ownership." However, one gunshot

gently separated my lips. Curling against my face w

all on camer

as *inside

he secure

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r ran up

shadow as I glanced around the corrid

from the screen. Above my head, I climbed

was

at me is a sm

vert

re trembling a

t the only one. It

hand and was waiting at the fro

it, his face

was that

d it's not just that. I received som

camera, which he then

pered. "These s

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monitor came to life, but it showed a dark screen with a single

d to himself. "They've

ssibly do that

ividual. The same person who assist

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ity. She oversaw Blacks tream's financial operati

also not se

saw something in Ethan's eye

oubt

he mov

le we had left, we went back in the vehicle. He di

to a location

bun

nd steel. Such a location, des

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ret service tu

and scanning his fingerprint did th

rk, and completely

no one was looking for

t out on the metal table

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overed in the red box." "Let's exam

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pulled

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gas

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hat I never intended to include Lila. However, as soon as she signed the lease for the bakery, she became

a deep

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face Ethan. "

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I believed h

Richard and Dorian's plans. He attempted to h

ick to my

you from t

was a hearsay." "But t

d the subse

video, t

mera while sitting by hims

to Lila. Additionally, advise her not to

d. "A red

face me. "Did you come a

on. The bullet was inside a cri

aid. "There's

itated, he s

my previous house before to the fire." "Every one of them. It

go grab

ther glance. "W

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aya now own

old. "You m

handed it to h

me, the room r

then flicker

as a new

was not the sou

was the so

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up and help

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finish when the

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