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y hand on the r

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I said

ears. He had been expecting me to beg for the one pu

e that?"

cancel it. So

, looking uncharacteri

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red a

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She wants the experience. She wants photos of

apher, my date, and my fianc

d," he added quic

aid. "It ma

. "You're tak

mob wife, Dante. Putt

r a crack in the armor. But I was hollow

h Shore Island after the shoot. For a fe

here we were supposed t

I'm gone," he said. "The flowers, the

his keys, and wa

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't say

r click

e minute. Then, I w

a heavy-dut

us off the nightstand. I took the clothes he ha

his spare toothbrush. His razor. The c

and took down the art we

the apart

were naked. The s

otel room. Sterile

ctly like our

nter of the void I had creat

d

nymore. I was planning a fune