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her voice trembling despit

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f warmth. "For ten years I tolerated you becaus

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e, she suddenly remembered so

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he rope tore into her skin,

making her forget that he was, at his core, a ruth

second, ti

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ged into the fr

nose. She struggled desperately,

, she saw the distant headlights of Julian's ca

e sharp smell of disinf

ivate hospital, her wrists wrapped

s stood beside the bed. "

to save me?" Nina

. "This was a warning. Don't provoke Miss Mo

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