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kay oka

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before she stopped herself. What would she even say. There's a monste

ing had happened to him. The blood. The way his shoulders had been shaking. A sound underneath the gro

he blood on the tile, the wrongness of those footprints, h

was getting into bed properly

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ve pushed for details immediately. Tonight her head was too

stly. i'll tell you

phone face down and fell

ng at

ed her office her phone was already ringing. A meeting. Mandatory, immediate, eve

room, sitting on of the chairs, scrol

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as I'm goi

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the second he cros

neck, anywhere blood might have been the night

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tle sleep she had gotten, and the room spent the next hour pickin

r Barry, and the conversation shifted briefly to t

ay. Sienna will circul

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didn't

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r than the rest, glancing between Valen and Maya with

idn't

d slightly against the table, clo

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ound the tabl

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face first, then his shoulder, checking, searching, her hands mov

today, did you actually get yourself checked out, did anyone look at you? ar

ay

can't just walk it off a

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ack slightly to look at him prop

o.

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ed her col

atching her reaction carefully. "You'll

at him. "I do