WHAT WE NEVER SAID

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it. I know you slept

ame to mine. We fell aslee

ly curled up on his chest and

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iffened

ast week say, 'Zara and that tall guy from studio class?

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went

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did a slow, t

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bribe you wi

fight her sm

cackled. "You're

typed

my weakness. I expect

into her pocket, ignorin

was flipping through an architecture textbook, absently twirling a pencil in his hand. Zara had barely touched her lapto

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inked.

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by their table-blonde, leggy, and famil

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tomach was instant

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