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parting them to make room for his e
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Downing the rest of my drink, I foc
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Shaking her head, she lets out a br
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her bottom lip.My dick pulses greed
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CHAPTER 8‘ARE you not interested
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Before I have a chance to ask if it
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for the restraint he has on me.Want
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Releasing my jaw, he skims down the
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CHAPTER 9“YOU TREAT ALL your hous
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evidently known for quick, traceles
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knew he could do it and I needed hi
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CHAPTER 10“THIS IS DEFINITELY whe
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appliances.A formal dining room sit
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thought, then refocus in the next s
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and satin, matching the pajama set
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Unable to get through to the Riccis
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inside of my upper lip.My dick jerk
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Her lips curve up at the corners, a
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fucked?’Not consciously, no. Or,
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then brings my other hand up to his
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sentence. You’ll serve it at my g
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“A bar,” I answer, gesturing at
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back from the table as if she can s
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My annoyance with how this entire a
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Placing her hand on her hip, Gwen n
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Kal owns half the island?A heavines
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Putting his arms up in surrender, h
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CHAPTER 15THE SECOND MY sister open
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scurries in front of me, blocking m
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Which, I suppose I am. Even now.“
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Groaning to myself, I lean my head
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Maybe Hades was lonely too, and he
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CHAPTER 17I’M NOT a man who very
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He’d gotten back from his break a
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defenseless and used, elicits an en
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CHAPTER 18WHEN I WAS A KID, my moth
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“What...” I start, pulling it p
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outside a closed door.“I don’t
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longer we stand in silence.Pushing
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CHAPTER 19I’VE KISSED LESS than a
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dusty pink peak, keeping eye contac
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“Kallum...” she chokes out, jut
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Shaking my head again, I shove her
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immediate fulfillment has me diggin
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“Jesus Christ.” His breaths are
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gel over the cut.I suck in a breath
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CHAPTER 21“YOU LOOK ODDLY WELL RE
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Under normal circumstances, the exi
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and Carmen during their anniversary
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“And I have no clue what I’m do
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inexperienced, giving me a whole ot
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how badly Mamá misses me.“I mean
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‘You’ll learn to love him,’ s
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And Mamá always wonders why she ca
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CHAPTER 23THE DOOR to Jonas’s off
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there is bloody terrible at introdu
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just made me realize...”When she
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don’t you start with what bothers
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one of my hands and clasping the ma
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something that happens... well, eve
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Smirking, I push to my feet on wobb
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I didn’t officially meet him unti
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“Ready to tell me why the don sen
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Folding the paper, I place it on th
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and finally I exhale, remembering h
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My fingers clutch at his shoulders,
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back seat of Kal’s town car, fold
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take those very seriously.”Growin
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CHAPTER 27DROPPING my head into my
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way my life turned out.“You look
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my head to the crook of her neck, b
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CHAPTER 28WHEN I BRING up my sister
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to the garden that still has not bl
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In the pit of my stomach, in the fa
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Groaning, he retreats, and I’m le
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only kidnapped her, but forced her
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Carmen’s going to lose her shit.A
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Or, was silent.Mamá sweeps into th
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I can forget all of that.But... I d
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convent after everything you’ve p
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words that fill the room, earning a
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I pinch my thigh, trying to steady
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broken.”I shrug. “Sounds like a
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asshole.”“In America, it’s in
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I can’t remember a single time in
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and now the obvious power struggle?
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CHAPTER 33MY MOTHER’S accusation
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Satan’s doorstep.”There’s hat
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mother in a similar state.”The se
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“Give me one reason why I shouldn
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breed her, and do you know why, Car
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“That contract you fucked me out
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back. “Will the rest of your part
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of trouble if I’d just listened.
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She’s right.Nodding, I acquiesce,
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down, grazing my mouth over her ear
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between them, my heart pounding in
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in the floor. “Oh, God, yes. Righ
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I stand in that stall far longer th
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bearing down on my brain. “Not re
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The hurt and betrayal I felt from l
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orchestrated that. So much for bloo
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CHAPTER 37THE DAY I return to Aplan
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At least, how he saw it.To him, it
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her to the ends of the fucking eart
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so I’ve been using them. The kind
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annulment papers? Because I’m pre
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he’s waiting for.“Of course you
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“I’m not doing anything.”“D
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their soul.I want to know his so we
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draw a little blood and scar, but n
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CHAPTER 39I SLIP out of bed the mor
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the stimuli I’m encountering. Not
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Growing agitated with each passing
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EPILOGUEIN MOST VERSIONS of the myt
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few weeks before Quincy was born, a
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Sweet Sacrifice (Boyd and Fiona)Kin
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