Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller

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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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most satisfying delicacy he’s eve
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to him, and I feel that familiar pr
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CHAPTER 25I’LL NEVER FORGET the l
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pissed himself.When I put the bulle
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Tony exhales, glancing around the r
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glances up, her smile falters, chee
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CHAPTER 26HE TELLS me to close my e
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normal skin.” He shifts, dropping
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side, shooting daggers at the bounc
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his jacket pockets, pressing his li
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I just can’t figure out why they
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“That’s true. I’m very lovabl
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She nods. “Always. Ari has a reci
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between, despite the serenity aroun
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an obsession become more?Probably w
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them fully deserve it.“It’s not
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CHAPTER 29AS BADLY AS I’d love to
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back, folding them in her lap. “J
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CHAPTER 30“DIO MIO, you must’ve
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Mamá snorts into her wine glass.No
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her glasses up the bridge of her no
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CHAPTER 31I LET the silence filling
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“It’s true.” I shrug, ignorin
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“Your mother is plenty alive,”
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CHAPTER 32I MEET my sisters and Lor
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Annoyance flickers in my gut, but I
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Boston to the ground, just to keep
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“Of course, you didn’t, because
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Just not the one I’d been hoping
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path. Looking up at Kal, I’m stru
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CHAPTER 34I HAVE HALF a mind to cha
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concerned with the loss of blood an
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kind of flames that flourish with p
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CHAPTER 35THE THEATER LISTED on the
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Taking the seat next to hers, I str
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Like floodwaters after a hurricane,
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my pants; I hiss when she drags the
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“Think you can balance yourself o
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yanking my face to hers.“You’re
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The dancers take the stage at the s
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CHAPTER 36ARIANA STARES at me as sh
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in the luxury building.Lucky me, I
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knew from the second I laid eyes on
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“I used to want that from you, to
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shoved my head between her legs.Her
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Over the next couple of weeks, I st
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answer.My eyebrows furrow. “What?
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CHAPTER 38KAL’S SISTER looks like
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Slamming the papers down on the gla
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Wiping his mouth on my thigh, Kal s
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expression in his eyes completely u
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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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IVERS INTERNATIONAL IS a company fo
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She nods, producing another flash d
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completely around our daughter’s
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THANKS FOR READING!If you enjoyed K
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ALSO BY SAVKing’s Trace Antiheroe
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSJesus, y’all. I wa
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