Do Billionaires Ever Do Redemption ?

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yself to s

to imagine what it was she saw that she thought deserved that grin. It was of the five of us

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an a decade ago, but strangely I found myself jonesing for a cigarette now. Funny

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w I'd turned out. She had no right to smell the way she did-familiar and new all at once, a

of freckles on her cheeks, the ones she'd always hated. The ones that formed a const

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you need from me, Julianna?" I said her name pointedly, pr

lower lip. "Actually, it's Jolie now. I didn't change

so. I'd been the only one to call her that once upon a time, and while I didn't expect to still get to in

atever you want to go by, I have that wedding

n instant. Like someone pulling down the blinds. One minute

st, I remi

I didn't nee

ladies should sit, her hands laid casually in her lap. I followed after her, circling behind the desk, but instead o

an she did, but in a lot of ways, Jolie and her father were inseparable in my mind. The

n had belonged to Jolie alone. Still did, I supposed, sin

why I need

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to be sitting for t

ne like

a sigh. "I, um. I need

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w

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ying to read somebody that I u

he meant the things she

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not a

to kill yo

in her chair. "You don't

t, and you think that's what you want. Nice try." Condesc

tronized. Adult Jolie was a whole different or

rder plot really should involve at

mediately dropped it. "Go ahead, ge

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