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was stronger now. "I think you're trying to hu

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up of teenagers sni

churned w

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seen this? It's all

k fol

embled as I

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ld similar to mine, meeting a man in a dimly lit

d overlaid with scandalous text implying a clandestine aff

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lled, her voice

ou have to do something!

all comfort in the s

he Vance estate,

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his expression h

hen," he said, h

red at him, u

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ate, absolute. No questions

n't real! It's f

ared, his face flushed with anger. "She's been th

the room,

ever love. The only one I will marry. Nothing you do,

wall I couldn't breach. He

peared in the doorway,

s all the shouting?" sh

e, her eyes full o

"I heard about that awful video. It must be so distressing

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ing this, enj

top of the grand stair

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as I fell, bouncing, hitting the h

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pain, I saw Juli

fo

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rms, did his gaze fall on me, crumpled a

ut his first instinct, his only

immense, a cr

lization of his ultimate, unthink

th absolute certainty that to h

came