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green dress, simple, not trying too hard, except she'd tried on eleven pieces of jewelry before landing on the small gold earrings her mom
on a date," she to
and by the time Maya made it out of her room, her mother was al
's boss," her mom
like that,"
him except the way he still stood like he owned whatever room he entered. His eyes found Maya the second she stepped int
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on an actual date, whatever that meant for the two of them tonight. Maya expected Valen to be ou
him after he missed the basketball h
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e'd expect from someone who ran a multibillion dollar company, muttering somethin
ually failed at three separate times, Maya realized she'd stopped thinking about blood on the floor entirely. Sto
rage door. She told him about her first job, scooping ice cream at fourteen and getting fired within a month for eating mor
night gone cool and quiet after the noise inside, something b
wrapped around herself against th
her w
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a warning, the same way he'
step back
ace, gentle in a way that felt completely at odds with everything she'd seen him do, and then his lips were on hers
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