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expensive whiskey hung in

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kitchen, his expression dark. I slid a

irthday,

fixing me with a hard stare. "What t

juice without looking up.

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st my fingers. I tightened my gr

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is lips. "You mean the ability to leave s

he scar on her wrist

again. The story he'd chosen to beli

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eyes. For the first time, he saw the

ou've always th

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in him. There was no point in digging i

tied my untouched

tonight," I said, my tone as casual

th nowhere to direct his anger. I saw the frustratio

, I attended Jagger

sses and hushed conversations. I mechanically

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the next table to hear. "Just like back then. Always playing t

oft glow of the candlelight, was d

fe and fork nea

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glass of deep red Cab

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shed across his crisp white dress shirt and expensive jac

tions stopped. Every eye in the r

his face twisting with fu

e empty glass b

he handsome face I had once believed

my voice clear and unwavering. "

mile curv

last birthday I'll

and too stunned to stop me, I turned on my heel and

brick wall of the building, my body finally allowin

y purse. A message fro

ind.' Waiting for you