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a's

carefully in my left hand, the other with a small, velvet box tucked neatly inside a white glossy jewel

mean warmth. Movie nights. Long showers and quiet thoug

the cold. My breath clouds the air in front of m

l no

red. N

ring you some spring rolls? I know yo

tle dots. No blue c

s w

up in just one week. She's my maid of honor. She should be with me right no

hat sixth sense wolves get when something isn't right. I don't know if it's the cold, or my inst

ng to M

and neither do I. I just watch the lights blu

the heavier the sile

tucked into a corner street-I notice the porch lights are on. That's not u

fr

say to the driv

e's music coming from inside-loud, rhythmic, something sensua

he already open door. "Girl, you alive

s. Just the beat of the mu

ep i

tonight it carries something else... something heavy. I set my food bag

ng room

eminine-is floating down the

I say under my breath with a gri

xplain her n

hen I

way. A man's shoe. Black l

t of pauses... like it's waiting for c

oftly. "You really ghosted me for s

ering lights under the bedroom door. The hallway's long, but the c

s my ears that

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ili

fami

vo

holding the jewelry bag,

be him. No.

rises, sultry

e you what

even b

door-slightly ajar-open

I

e I'll never be able t

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ar. He laughs, dark and lazy, before flipping her over wi

eed to se

w tha

that

lazy, conf

k, Marla... you

s louder.

hat w

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was suppos

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st frien

isn't my father, he doesn't have to know my whereabouts. Plus, he just got back to the city again after

o fast I don't even realize I've stepped bac

don't

't ba

open and ruin the momen

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as quietl

the h

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food I

re the silence feels safer

at the moon-bright

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night sky, voice shaki

went in, resting my head on the headre

riously Mar

do that? With my

his uncle being a

ctly is