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A Visit from Mr. Winters
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Gemma woke up disorientated to her alarm, and she stopped moving when her brain registered an unusual warmth of her bed and the weight holding her middle down. It didn’t take long for her brain to register why and what it was. Larin snored softly behind her. How did she sleep through that? Before he woke up, she grabbed her phone off its charger with her free hand and shook it to turn on the sleep mode. With that temporarily silenced, Gemma tried to extricate herself from the bed and Larin.
“Good morning. I’ll assume you would wake after you’ve put yourself together a bit?”
“Yeah, morning. Something like that.” Truthfully, Gemma wasn’t sure she’d wake him or how. She hadn’t thought things throug
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