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. The door to the mas

tairs. The kit

otepad. A single sheet of paper with

g nice for dinn

his black Amex card.

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front door. The mor

outside the gate. Kelsie must have walked

anded her a coffe

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p. Or prete

did

, staring at the steam rising from the cup

the steering wheel. "That a

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ext... I saw the number. It's

to me,"

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mumbled, disappeari

e cracked her knuckles. "Ok

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hide her beauty. Pale skin, large, watery blue eyes, fragile features.

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d," she w

w her?"

Angelique. His stepsister. He always showed me pictures of her when she was a litt