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in while I had the chance. The moment I pressed closer, he dropped his arms from around me. I bit back a

me up with it?after?he confessed he wasn't the man Shrondra had paid for. More emb

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iding his dark eyes from me.?"I'm sorry, Vegas," he said, hanging his

blouse up to my chin. "What were your in

ng adults, nothing more. But with this man,?this

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. He felt good, like a warm blanket on a cold winter's night. It had been ages since a man had wrapped me

then sleeping it off." He pulled out a card key with the image of downtown pictured on the front.

o say, but I knew what I?didn't?want. And that was to br

ther for over a year. It hurt like hell when I signed the last bit of paperwork. I came he

the utter destruction I had felt when Terence called it quits. That numbing of the heart, that all-consuming feeling of hopelessness that struck like

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o touch my elbow, I didn't resist. "Talk to me, Vegas. Tell me what you're thinkin

ed me c

it V! You'

m's way. "Um, I was just t

of hair from its coif. The dark strands hung ov

love h

a chance to escape, Jae propelled me through the crowd and out the

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diamond halted his progress, tension crept over his back like a ca

ng in quiet tones. Jae whipped his head first left, then righ

n alcove behind a few leafy potted plant

followed him a f