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DescentBy Sam Mariano
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Were he not a supreme scoundrel, he
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Chapter Forty TwoChapter Forty Thre
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“An excellent mentality in most c
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head to explain why I didn’t want
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“Hello, Hallie.”The deep, unfam
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His answer is simple. “I don’t
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I’m not sure I should.“I believ
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there are certain aspects of my per
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her.Even though I’m the one who w
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something else, aren’t you?”She
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Chapter ThreeHallieI thought it wou
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Until he lets me out?Dread blossoms
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Defeat wraps its fingers around my
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boobs spill out. Then he slides his
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on the wall, too, then grab a vibra
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She latches on desperately. “Yes.
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I text Hollis.I collect Hallie’s
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He nods dutifully. “Yes, I am.”
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together enough courage to leave my
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It’s nearly time to start the mar
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that. The possibility that he could
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I don’t.I hear her voice again, l
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want to know the reason.My pleasure
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I hear a confused murmur, and a mom
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front of everyone up here, but the
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that’s the problem. It should’v
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“But I want to see you again. Tom
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But there are brush strokes that do
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I’m horrified to realize I comple
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I drop the spoon and hurry over to
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myself watching for Calvin’s limo
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around the city somewhere.He has as
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My nude heels click against the coo
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I swallow and shrug off his grip be
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I swallow it, anyway.A brief hit of
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Chapter ElevenHallieWhen I was a gi
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So, so heavy.My eyes drift closed.
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Thirsty.I’m so fucking thirsty.I
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I don’t want to talk to him. He
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I grab onto it. “Please, Calvin,
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Chapter TwelveCalvinShe’s so godd
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“No.”Because I say no when I co
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grasp. I wonder if deep down, it ma
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up to me. Reality pierces my bubble
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safety, you aren’t as afraid of m
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The pressure builds despite his hor
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Chapter FourteenHallieWhen my eyes
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___I had to walk for several blocks
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“Your boyfriend told me you were
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“You’re right,” he answers.
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crawling down his arm that goes pas
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Chapter SixteenHallieI haven’t de
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I don’t bother pointing out that
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Shaking it off and telling myself t
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look at me, hiking an eyebrow in qu
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being a secret art thief, but for w
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Instead, he rented out The Met beca
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Shaking off the errant thought, I s
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He nods casually. “If you asked m
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I suck in a breath and push back in
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Chapter NineteenHallieThe temple is
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The thread of conversation slipped
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I turn to head back through the doo
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And then there’s the man behind m
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“Brace your hands,” he orders,
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He grabs my hair, pulling me uprigh
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Chapter Twenty OneHallieMy dreams t
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My gaze stops on the oscillating fa
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Lifting my eyebrows, I say, “Am I
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not in the wrong without telling hi
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Since Hallie seems to be in the bat
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I palm my cock as it strains agains
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Chapter Twenty ThreeHallieTurning i
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In Calvin’s overbearingly bossy s
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at the time, a reality TV star he w
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Every word out of his mouth makes m
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tonight, I’m actually kinda surpr
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“No?” the guy behind me asks, h
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I can only gape at him.He was a lot
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Chapter Twenty FiveCalvinMy lovely
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stand up for this part.She eyes my
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The kiss wasn’t the point; I just
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Chapter Twenty SixHallieThe bedroom
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I shake my head. “I can’t help
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Calvin proves an unlikely savior, s
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I watch as he approaches the hall l
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might when they’re standing guard
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He regards me for a moment, an insc
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him.I know I set out to annoy him t
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That’s what I have to keep tellin
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Not that. Whatever door number two
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Chapter Twenty NineHallieCalvin sit
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pussy. He does it again and again u
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I expect pain to follow my acquiesc
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the bathroom naked.
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you, but I need to be looped in. I
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else, Hallie.”His words are reass
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I’m not one of those easy breezy
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Chapter Thirty OneHallieI barely wa
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I frown at my own thought. Is it?I
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to feel sexy in these heels. I lay
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Chapter Thirty TwoHallieHollis does
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exactly why I sent them.I shake my
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wisely.”___Calvin orders my dinne
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Chapter Thirty ThreeHallieI feel st
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the city pretty regularly. I always
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I sigh, sinking into the buttery le
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He grabs my arms and pins them over
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Oh my god, could he hear us?As if n
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Chapter Thirty FourHallieOver the n
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“I… What? I mean, what if you d
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Some part of me thought he might te
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Chapter Thirty FiveHallieSteam make
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and silk sheets, and before I know
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“I can’t be pregnant.”My voic
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have power over me even after that.
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She still needs to eat something. H
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“Let’s never use that terminolo
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Chapter Thirty SevenHallieIt’s mo
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“That was generous of you.”“R
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Phew.That was too close. She’ll b
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Then again, I met him because of a
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Why would you delete pictures you t
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I don’t even know what to say. Of
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Trying to shake it off, I focus on
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