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"Yes, it is Now, can we play this ga to be able to pull you away froht, am I?"

"Nope"

He just rolled his eyes "Antonio has a birthday a that the squad ant to play it too"

Jared had been right When the squad – along with Jude – caave aht out The first level was the try-outs The second level featured a nu sessions in the arena Then each level thereafter was an assigns got harder and harder as the ga and swi in the bat pool

The players were so life-like that it was almost freaky The structure of The Holloas picture perfect – even the surrounding rainforest was aly identical to the one here The squad took turns at playing as other people, boasting that they had better control of that person’s gift than they did That caused souments

Even Antonio and Luther had a turn when they cauessed that they were so competitive if I hadn’t seen it for myself Some of the curses that flew fro Fletcher and Norhted to be able to use an energy whip

Of course they all asked if Jared could have one made for the the that nobody else had Fletcher and Norht that was extremely sweet Everybody else whined about it I couldn’t blame them – it was even more addictive than ‘Vampire Nation’ So addictive that I played it until my eyes hurt, and I actually moaned when I realised that it was tianised

Forcing aiven o?" I asked Jared as I exited the en-suite bathroom

His hands landed on aze explored every inch of me "If it wasn’t your birthday meal, I’d say skip it so I could roll this dress up and burydeeply

I s the shirt wasn’t in the way "You can do that later"

"You can bet your sweet little ass I will" He dropped a kiss on " To e parlour rooely empty beach

I frowned "Where is" He twirled ht ahead of us

"You look a," Jared whispered into my ear as he started to lead me across the sand No, what I could see ahead of us was ‘a’ Several tables were set up on the sand, all hite table cloths, lanterns, chalasses, and flowery centre pieces I loved the beach at night, loved the way the ht played off the water That was clearly why they had done this for me God, I was spoiled rotten by these people and I probably didn’t deserve it

With the exception of one table, all the others were seated with guests On the first table sat Antonio, Lucy, Luther, and – groan – Collins and Eloise On the second were Fletcher, Norm, Ava, and Cristiano The third seated Butch, Salem, David, and Denny, while the fourth seated Chico, Jude, Harvey, Daht of the three people who couldn’t be here