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like a ticking bomb. I had no idea where it led. May

had

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light streaming through a glass door

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hen-s

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beep beep beep of the b

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heard f

easured

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ence stretch

g ragged, her hands clenched into the grass l

her than I though

d up, eye

to h

de her. "That's not how this wo

perty," she growled, stil

"Not yet. Bu

the grass

hin, forcing he

disobey me?" I asked softly. "They vanish.

ed. "You can kill me, bu

til our noses

ill you," I whispered.

pped me

aug

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d. "I like th

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ishment,"

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to do?" I asked, t

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e gently on

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hand to my sh

said, voi

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ze how far she'd

he hated me. But she couldn't ignore the pull. That primal magnetism

need to

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her that even in contr

r and ran my hands down h

te

at," I murmured against

" she wh

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brushed

this. The danger. The surre

shiv

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as sin. Fir

s drowni

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t me, eyes dark

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me there

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the hallway through

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