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Ariana stepped into the dim alleyway behind the gallery. The

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all owned by her father's campaign, and she had caught him. But instead of c

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ze slid over her bare shoulders, lingering a

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ingers were rough, stained with art and rebelli

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she was something precious he couldn't keep. His hands cradled

d in the distance. She br

go," she

stepping back. "But

life she had and the one she was

icking against pavement,

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