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Besides, she was saving all of her energy to throw her unwanted guest out

"I’ll be right back"

She opened her asp in pain as the h her stoht noas not the best time to kick hihtly and pressed her arainst her sto

"Here," Lucifer said, taking her hand and placing it on soh her sto to be sick again, she pulled her hand back and placed it on her sto and then, she felt hi?" she asked, going co this

"Is it helping?" he deood idea to clihtly around her and pulling her closer

"It’s definitely creeping me out!" she snapped, because she couldn’t tell hi her and that so

"That didn’t answerhis hold around her and o away, but at least she didn’t feel like she was seconds away froony anymore

When she didn’t answer hi he did was helping, he started to pull his hand away "I guess if it isn’t helping…" he said, letting his words trail off as he continued to pull his hand away

Glaring at the wall and hating the bastard for toying with her like this, she grabbed his ar! Are you happy?"

"Overjoyed," he said with a chuckle that she refused to find pleasing as he wrapped his arms back around her and held her close

"Asshole," she ain It was definitely so that he didn’t do often, but when he did, she couldn’t help but smile even when all she wanted to do was cry

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"Do you want the Coke I brought you?" he asked, noting that she’d tightened her hold over his ar hio in order to get it?" she asked after a slight pause

"Yes"

"Then no," she said, shifting against hilanced over at the alarhtstand He really should be downstairs preparing for the dinner rush and looking into hiring a neaitress, but here he was holding the biggest pain in the ass that he’d ever known He still wasn’t sure what had possessed him to come up here and check on her in the first place She wasn’t his responsibility, but for some reason he felt protective of her and he couldn’t quite explain it

"Do you want anything?" he asked, hating to see her in thiswith all those doctors that told her that this was all in her head