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box. I had left it on the curb when I went inside

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t and pulled out a sma

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, twirling it in her manicured fi

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and his heavy boot co

exploded in my abdomen. I was thrown back agai

e checked Seraphina's face, cuppin

raphina wailed, holdin

clutching my stomach, u

," I wheezed.

hattered plastic on t

oldly. "I will buy you a better

the car

ne on the phone now, handling business, ignor

pe from a bag she had in her purse. He t

the ceilin

vibrations

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ran the

side where Seraphina was sitting. But th

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