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Chapter 36Chapter 37Chapter 38Chapt
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For my thirteen-year-old self. Your
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PLAYLIST“Pomegranate Seeds” - J
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—sometimes, simply the existence
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they don’t care if their crimes c
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“It doesn’t.” His face redden
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taking the place of violence.My min
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“Dio mio! Suck it in, Elena,” M
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doorway suddenly, the burnt orange
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“What the fuck?” I hiss, hurryi
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CHAPTER 3MY DICK STIFFENS behind my
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And I realize, as she peels that pi
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tucking it in at his sides.If you d
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Breaking off on a strangled cry, sh
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never continued beyond that.Is it p
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that I can’t translate, while Pap
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“Here.” Kal shoves a piece of p
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CHAPTER 5“WELL, this is an intere
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sisters.It’s very clear to me tha
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When I breeze from the room, hittin
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With her, it’s always been about
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CHAPTER 6THE FIRST THING I notice w
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All my life, I chased bruised cheek
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man dubbed Doctor Death by everyone
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CHAPTER 7ELENA DOESN’T LEAVE the
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I bought the jet—a vintage 1987 M
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Of course, I hadn’t known it was
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fucking sentiment. “So you keep s
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strong, like he’s letting me keep
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it? Did you marry me to save me, or
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either side of the hall, we finally
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I know he’s said he was blackmail
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Each year, my mother pinched and sa
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over the black upholstered headboar
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the headlines, my hand already reac
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Kal left me in our room. I hadn’t
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about your affare illecito. So very
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“You’d what, Elena?” I mutter
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CHAPTER 11ELENA’S EYES flare to l
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“I’m not sure this is a good id
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Silence.“Marcelline?” I call ou
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CHAPTER 12THE LONGER I lie naked in
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sisters sometimes say.”“Ah, yes
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flash of distress in those tantaliz
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CHAPTER 13“WHAT IS THIS PLACE?”
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my little wife doesn’t turn and m
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been in this week.Dread funnels in
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CHAPTER 14I’M STILL GLARING at ou
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“Jesus,” the man says, wrenchin
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ones. And after, probably me.I knew
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Besides, I shouldn’t even want mo
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that she learned he was married.His
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at the ache they cause, taking a st
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CHAPTER 16I DON’T GET VERY FAR, s
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Maybe if he hadn’t left you alone
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And then everything goes dark.
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Perching on the edge of the desk, I
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naught, depending on what I find in
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to push the narrative that I stole
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fighting, even if he didn’t know
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hitting you the longer we spoke.”
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good stuff.“We don’t have long,
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smoothness of his ministrations, an
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succulent and entirely too pure for
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the K I put there.Elena blinks down
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tugs on my hair until pain lances a
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CHAPTER 20I FEEL FULL.It’s the on
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threatening to unravel at any momen
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He steps past me, pushing open the
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side.My clit throbs where it touche
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the contract I signed years ago, ju
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“Believe me,” I say, leaning ag
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explosive connection, and lodges in
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“Are you okay? You seemed... tens
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CHAPTER 22“I’M TELLING YOU, the
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were kids. “Anyway... how’s mar
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on my arms, sending a shiver gratin
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Asphodel and fuck his time away.“
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at all times, there are just certai
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Her eyebrows draw inward, and she g
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CHAPTER 24SOMEHOW, even before he s
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bumps sprouting along my skin. “D
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“For what it’s worth, I am sorr
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captive before, because you’re da
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Hades and Persephone.She finally st
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completely around our daughter’s
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