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Amara looked at hiray side-stripes in his slightly curly jet black hair and deep bronze skin He dressed ie of sophistication

But his looks and classy demeanor masked his true, treacherous nature

Her mouth set in a hard line “It’s none of your business Excuse me”

As she moved to walk around hiry with me, Amara? What have I done to you, hm?”

He pretended to try to suppress a ether does not mean we cannot be friends, yes?”

She jerked her shoulder back hard, his touch dissolving her efforts to stay cool “Fuck you, Frederik Fuck you, you know exactly what you did”

“So I do,” he returned with obvious pleasure

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“And you knohy I did it,” he said “You knew better than to cross a man like me, Amara”

She refused to respond, but that didn’t deter hi

“When I speak, the people, they listen,” he boasted smoothly “The iiven you the time of day if not for et you funding I did that”

He grinned widely, his perfect white teeth flashing in the sunlight “And you decide to get holy on me when it is tiame as I do, and so, you have lost”

Intense anger bubbled up from inside her like a sour taste “I haven’t lost”

He reeked of sirl Frederik Orlando alins The sooner you know this, the sooner you can try to rebuild what your pride has destroyed”

“Go to hell, Frederik” Aht hand treet one good slap in She decided against it and forced her way past hi him aside with her shoulder “And stay out of my way”