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I stare at him and he smiles as he leans in for a kiss "You really are a lionfish, you know that?" And then his tongue slips in and his hand slides aroundback I opento his request, and he moans and wraps his arms all the way aroundunder to grabbad I want to flip you over and fuck you right now"

I squirrabs my wrists and yanks theet a kiss" I turn o and steps back "You’re cheating"

"You’re cheating," I say back "That wasn’t a secret I want another one Maybe I’ hoo for your sister She doesn’t look so bad I mean, I was trained by iven to you What’s the difference? So she got different parents? From what I can tell, that bitch of ahis head the whole ti and so when I stop, I expect a protest But he gives ain "One beat her," he finally admits

I sn that bitter truth "Well, I’m sorry for that, of course I’et beaten But One strangled ed Overdosed, in fact So it looks like One does not discriuy is one of the oldest, more seasoned assassins, then that means if he wanted your sister, he would have her With or without help fro and just stare at him "Next"

Vincent breaks a smile at that response "You want h under my breath "No, I just want to knowabout James"

"It’s all bad stuff, Harper Why would you want to know? Why hied when you can have perfect?"

"No one’s perfect, Vincent You can’t tell rew up in this fucked-up fas look on the outside, it’s a lie And we both know it"

"He drowned our father He tried to kill our father, but he failed"

Now that has my attention

Vincent nods "He is the one who drowned hi he caed--"

"I don’t care"

Vincent looks atwith you?"

"I don’t care"

"He stalked you, Harper He lied to you about being your promise He knew the Ad up He’s dangerous and one day he’s gonna get you killed"

"I don’t care"