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Peyton just kept his ht before, he would have jumped at this opportunity to take a shit all over Axe

And he was jealous--but not when it came to Elise He was pissed that the fucker had been with Novo

"Look," he said, "the only piece of advice I can give you is to go with your gut It’s never wrong"

"Well, what it’s tellingto a hardcore club and having sex with so to come to a bad end for you Iadults and all, but this is exactly why I told him to stay the fuck away froht, he didn’t

Not at all

FORTY-EIGHT

As Mary sat at her desk at Safe Place, she acco

Well, that wasn’t exactly true She succeeded, quite ad a pile of paperwork froed to review every page in said pile of case notes, intake forrah-level stuff

Yup She’d located several its-versus-it’s problerave;ce de résistance, an orientated versus the A back in her squeaky chair, she swiped the mouse pad and checked the time on her computer screen Holy crap It was three auessed that quick ht before hadn’t been all that quick

Taking a deep breath, she s in the ovens downstairs, and a wave of sadness hit her She could reet Bitty to participate in the coirl had preferred to sit upstairs in the attic room she had shared with her er possessions, her stuffed tiger and that doll head beside her on the bed

They hadn’t even known her real age at that point

God, that seeo--

Her phone went off, and as she checked the text, she hoped it was Rhage She needed an excuse to leave--

It was not froot to her feet, tucked her blouse into her slacks, and carefully pulled on her coat Then she picked up her purse and her phone

Instead of telling everyone down below that she was going, she just sent a

Noas not the ti--especially not the compassionate females orked here and would read her like a book