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s handsome face

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didn'

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s firm chest, tracing the line of his abs, stop

er phone with her free hand, holding the screen up for him to read,

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look, and disappeared into the ti

he held the ph

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hun

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eyes still lingering on the dark alley. "She h

go to a shady

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faded plastic

melted away, replaced by

he had ever felt during her brief,

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