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scanned the room with the predator

nudging Jessica forward. "Et

older couple, looking di

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seemed genuinely pleasant. "Your

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ase, a meet

comment I made, a re

to the stiff, polite s

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oking annoyed, but she was

terlude was

Sarah," Ethan said, his gaze sincere. "

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, a dazzling smile p

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old me so muc

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towards me for a moment, an u

his full attent

. And I, once again, was

the shadows f

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