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2024-10-29 19:42:56VANESSA POV
He completely ignores my question and begins to leave the room. I stay seated on the table, unmoving. I don't want to follow him. I want to find Rosy and make sure she is okay. "I need to find Rosy," I say, watching his massive back muscles. He stops in his tracks and looks back at me with his hungry blue eyes. "You need to follow me," he says in his gruff authoritative voice. I feel uneasy when he speaks in that tone. I nod slightly and scoot down from the medical table. My mind is still reeling from the bomb he just dropped on me. I had been wondering what the doctor and him were talking about while they behaved like I wasn't in the room. But I wasn't expecting to be told I was part animal. Part animal like the sleazeballs we had served breakfast to. I hated every single one of those idiots. The females had watched us like we were scum and the males acted like we were the next dis
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