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I felt the disgust creep across my face

"You’re beautiful You deserved so ot in life" He sounded sincere Of course he also sounded like I had one foot in the grave, no doubt because I was thirty-six I was nearly retiree, apparently My eyes wandered the house briefly, terrified so ed, "A while We weren’t watching you though We atching him"

"Did you watch my kids in the bathroo What’s wrong with you? No No one watched the kids at all Bathroo devices only We aren’t perverts"

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I shookup the stairs

"Evie, wait" He ran afterto bathroom I closed the door and locked it He was in the bedroo on the bathroom door, by the time I turned the bathroom lock