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second more. And then just as I'm putting my bag over m

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picked it u

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. "Seba

my offi

respond, the

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s more a mugging and I hadn'

d headed toward his offic

my heels on the polished white marble floor growing louder

s back to me and the sun full on him as he faced the

me?" I asked, try

his eyes locking onto mi

n me, but I complied, the soft click of

ut I willed myself to b

a glacial pace, like a pre

pt telling myself he was the bad guy, I couldn't lie to

ng with fire," His

ook away. "I don't

to me, Zara. I might have given you a couple of days to get

aze boring into mine. The crackling tension was un

say past my constricted throat

a grip of steel that was not painful, I detested him for the

nk I don't know what you're up to? You and Noah? D

ut I didn't waver

lying? If you are?" He shook me once. "I'll know, and wh

rable, his words a mi

he constant threat t

ouldn't

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ou Sebastian" I mutt

wards so that our faces

l the warm brush of his breat

almost breath it in. It was charged with

d feel it too, the inevitable grip of her prese

. Not l

ce between us if I were going to be able to think straight. "If you're not blaming m

ing across the gap he'd close

n my heels I walked straight out of his offic

o stop. Struggling for breath and attempting to reg

ouldn'

dancing between Noah and Sebastian

eventually. And when they did, there was

w I had to

out. Because if I didn't, I would be the on

y phone again

s fro

talk. Tonight.

fall. Tonight. Everything had been moving t

in too

sure I could

t did nothing to dissipate the thoughts tumbling aro

I couldn't help feeling like I'd just been

ian an

ild animals over the carcass of a

about the impendi

over and over in my

Be read

ut what Noah wanted and how far I could

h had promised. The tinted window rolled down, and a driver in a