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“Thank you, Zen Master” Pan gave alessons”
“Glad to hear it I’ll try to make sure I drop a new one daily”
“Soing to get back to work”
“Might be helpful if you want to get out of here on time,” Monster drawled
“I hate you sometimes, you know?” Pan walked back to his bike
Monster shook his head His brother was like a dog with a bone He wouldn’t stop picking at this until he understood it He didn’t understand the fear in his chest that if he looked at it too closely, he’d discover it was all in his head Pan had always been thetwin and now, he was the normal one It’d exacerbated the difference between them Monster refocused his attention on his work to drown out the river of doubts threatening to drown the joy he’d gained There would be enough tih
CHAPTER TWO
She walked into the building and flipped on the overhead lights They huhtly overcast and the area was dark She’d been here about teeks and Chase had finally deeirl proud She’d been her champion from the day they met Part of her didn’t trust her motives
No, that’s Taffy talking You’re someone else now
She pushed thoughts of betrayal out of her mind No one, minus Gia, knew about her past She was free to be whoever she wanted The hard part about that was, she didn’t kno For so long, she ate as given without question, wore the clothes picked out, and acted the way her johns would like best It left her a soulless person in a wounded body Locking the door behind her, she walked to the office
She didn’tsex doll, it seemed like a piece of cake She’d always been fairly srams caht The men hadn’t been as awful as she expected She felt their stares She got it They were curious about her scars It’d becorown used to In today’s society, anything less than perfect was a disappoint a black female and the stereotypes widely believed…Then you had a recipe for potential disaster for an ordinary wo froth There would be very little she couldn’t endure
She ran over the sheet for the day and walked over to make a fresh pot of coffee Normally the first person in the office, she enjoyed the quiet ti prepared While the coffee percolated, she returned to her small office, turned on the co it by hand since Sarah quit Squinting, she tried to decipher the other woman's chicken scratch
The lock turned in the front door She glanced up and watched as Monster appeared in the doorframe His massive shoulders and bulky fra in his eyes spoke of a world of pain A man who knew hurt in a way most people didn’t
He glanced at her through the glassof her office and nodded his head “Morning, Syruff voice was at odds with the kindness in his blue eyes He had a different aura than his twin brother
“Morning, you’re in early”