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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
-Oscar Wilde-
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Adonis could not really sleep well that night for various of reasons, the first one being that he was too excited to start his new training at the company which legally belonged to him. Second reason was he kept on thinking about Ana and felt a deep and dark sense of jealousy and possessiveness he had never felt before when she told him that her ex wanted her back, even sending over some flowers and gift for her, because he knew Adonis was not a man who would often send her such gifts due to his circumstance. He tried sleeping soundly but each time he closed his eyes, those two things clashed and haunted him. He ended up tossing himself back and forth on the bed. Until he turned himself to her and decided to ease away his fear of the newfound competitiveness by staring into her face. He did not know why but each time he saw her sleeping like that he felt a strange se
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