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"Where were you?" I sounded re the fact that I wanted to bus" He wasn’t cold, but there was a ht and the detachedin front of me now

"So hoas your day?" (Dear)

"It was fine"

I stared at him with bewilderoing to treat me after all we’d shared? How naïve I’d been; just because we’d overcome our sexual hurdles didn’t mean we could overco his jacket and holster

I got the sense that he was trying to distance himself And if I were paranoid, I would even have said that he wasuneasy around e at last? That couldn’t be right Forcing a laugh, I said, "Have you been avoiding

Chapter 38

"You’re quiet," Sevastyan re" I stared out the li lines of flickering gas lamps and chestnut trees He’d said he had a surprise for ht, some unspecified destination

It’d been four days since the club, and while Sevastyan and I had continued to ress in bed, we’d been style one

We’d crested that night, and now see out

"You’re pensive" He druers on the armrest "I’ve never seen you so"

"Guess I have a lot onin

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"Tellabout," he said

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