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throwing a fit. We were, after all, the Moon Goddess's chosen mates - in

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talking. I couldn't argue her out of it, so I cal

away and turned

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and

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dialed Jasper

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my sister

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pressed my face into her cooling

push my sister away and cost me the time I could've spent with my grandmother. Jas