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dragged me toward our seats in the mid-section. "Now

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stomping feet, pounding on the boards, that collective roar th

realizing it, grumbling yet st

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ere pressed over my mouth. My heart was slamming against

tion. The announcer's voice was swallowed by the noise. On the jumbotron, his face

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the hundreds of people on their feet,

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where I was. Like he'

ver seen on him. Like hell the very f

only two people

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face her. Her dark eyes were wide, sharp, abs

like you're his girlfriend? And why," she lowered her voice, "did Paul text me

mach d

le

k. You look like you haven't slept. And now a man who could kill someone with hi

closed it. I didn't ev

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someone who looked like me, leaving the Fornon dormitory

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me. Her face was

"Right now. Or I'm finding