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Chapter 28; Sinclair
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Sinclair
I found myself unable to stay in the room without her. It felt too empty and desolate without her presence, so I decided to go down to the beach where other people were.On my way there, I was stopped by the receptionist at the front desk."Excuse me Mr Donovan-Wells, a package from New York arrived for you." She said, holding out a brown envelope for me.The back of the envelope had Donovan-Wells and New York written on it, nothing else. I picked it up quizzically. I hadn't been expecting any information, so I assumed it was from and about work. I frowned. The last thing I wanted to do and worry about right then was work. My head was a jumbled mess and I couldn't be trusted with important decision making at that moment. My cognitive skills lay shattered somewhere between finding out I was with a clone and I may have feelings for that clone."Thank you." I folded it and tucked it into my pocket before continuing on my way. The beachRelated chapters
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LondonI felt his body tense beneath mine at my question, but it only registered mildly. He didn't leave me. He was here, smelling like leather and spice and him and perfection. He was here and he's - wet. I raised my head and looked down at him. It wasn't just my imagination or my tears. His shirt was transparent and clung to his body."Why are you all wet?" I sniffled. I sat up till I was sitting astride his torso."Went for a little heroic dip in the ocean." he grinned at me. "Why are your eyes all wet?""Was doing a little cathartic release." I quipped back."Baby." His lips formed a straight line."I may have been crying," I mumbled, ducking my head. He cupped my jaw and raised it so my eyes met his."Hey, look at me. Baby girl, why would you think I'd left you?" He asked."I'm just a clingy mess." I tried to brush it off"My clingy mess." He smiled. "And I don't know what kind of moron will leave his wo
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London"Do you want me to pour you a drink?" He motioned at my empty glass."Please, thank you," I said.I took a sip of the thing after he had poured it and promptly spit it out."What?" He laughed."It's mango. It's gross."He threw his head back and roared with laughter. "What did you think it was?""Uhm. Orange juice! Like normal people drink and sane people serve. This shit tastes like being stranded on a tropical island." I griped.Sin took my cup and gulped down the disgusting drink. I shuddered with revulsion. "Eww."He shrugged easily. "Your loss.""On the contrary Mr Donovan-Wells," I argued. "Yuck."A moment later I felt eyes digging into me and I looked up to discover that he was still giving me that curious look, like he was trying to figure something out. I avoided his eyes as my life depended on it, facing my breakfast and eating it with the concentration of someone trying
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LondonI slipped into a lilactwo-piecee bathing suit while Sin was still in the bathroom laughing and being generally annoying. It wasn't really a surprise that Cath's luggage didn't have a single pair of shorts. For someone who had been heading for a vacation in a resort, there were entirely too many dresses and pants in her luggage and I didn't even blame her assistant who had sounded like a sassy teenager the one time we had talked over the phone. The closet in Cath's apartment hadn't exactly been bursting with fancy vacation clothes. Not even a single jean in sight.Cath needed an intervention, or someone to come and unshove the stick out of her ass. With a shrug, I went digging in my second set of luggage, AKA Sin's bags. "That had better not be an Albright rifling through my things." He said, voice full of amusement. I looked over my shoulder to see him standing a few steps away clad in only a towel around his hips. I followed the trail of water that dripped from his hair and
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