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… Two Steps Back

Author: Valery Nev
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As soon as I enter the house, I feel all eyes on me even though they try to look the other way and pretend they weren't looking and openly gossiping about me and Olivia talking like normal people for the first time since she came back.

Clara takes possession of my hand and pulls me towards the kitchen very excited to give me a taste of some cookie mix or something she and her mother are preparing. It's delicious and I tell her that, but it wasn't delicious enough to move me away from the game with my son to eat this nonsense. I don't even like desserts that much, I don't understand why she was so excited for me to try this.

Still, I stay in the kitchen with her for a while, trying not to look out into the backyard so I don't look like I want to go back to being there with my girl and my son, even though I totally want that.

The conversation in the house turns serious again when Lucinda starts telling everyone about the two wolves that attacked their father an
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Marlenny Fernandez
I’m thinking of the same thing. And if that’s the way, she do t deserve to be with him. Ollie needs to let Daniel mark her and take him away from clara instead of severe the bond
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Anita Crh
I wondering if Clara knew all along that Daniel &her sister were fated & she’s just been spiteful the whole time!!!
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