In Love With My Brother's Best Friend

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loud enough to drown

message from Julian.

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on business, retu

ned to meet

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anything to say about

you so sensitive? It was just talk among friends. Why t

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tinued. "If you like Belen,

snapped coldly. "Didn't you already k

ing, but my breathing grew

with pain, my head

conversation. He shed his usual gentle warmth,

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but my throat was too

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all, moving quickly, as if afraid

usic, I heard his gentle

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ed me that Julian

in a daze. Maverick and the oth

much we tease him. Why such a big rea

to see her. Something happened, and he came back broken. I asked, but he wouldn't say. Later, he started dating this girlfriend, and I thought he was smi

heard him call another's name. I didn

er he never sent for her coming-of-age part

known s

praised his restrained de

to stay steady, but my

roup, clicked his tongue. "His girlfriend's

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to me after ta

and said seriously. "Sonya, tha

fect, even Maverick

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