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loud, full of peopl

rge table near the

leaning in, her hand res

animated, the "artis

elaxed, happy smile I

rinking

d carefully managed for over a decade

ying to i

of conversation

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fforts to help his introverted nature, to ma

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mile freezing. Oliv

e you doing her

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le went

e place," Mark hissed

" I said, my gaze fixed on Olivia. "

looking shocked, innocent. "I.

ugly sound. "All those poems in

rah, stop it. You'

up a water glass. My hand was

on the table. Water

mbling backward. "She pushed me

e' d knocked over her own water

of Olivia's admirers, jumped

ved me

back, and my head hit the

oded behi

noise faded t

a looking artfully distressed, befo