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Chapter 44

Author: Lily Rose
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June was shocked at the internal shrieks that sent a wave of excitement down her body when Ollie’s name popped on her phone screen.

Thankfully, she managed to compose herself before Amy and Aiden who were grossly into the movie playing on the tv caught her shocking display.

Why was she so fucking happy she was getting a call from Ollie and not from the job she applied for?

—Job which if she didn’t get would be rendered homeless because she quit the strip club. Which was good news because she’d never felt more at peace than she was right now. And bad news because since most of her income came from stripping she needed equal earnings of part-time jobs to fill it. But this wasn’t the issue at hand. Her getting excited about Ollie was.

She didn’t understand herself anymore.

She let out a breath and tugged in her undesired surplus excitement—reasons for which she had no intention to delve—. Then she reached out to her phone, swiftly flicked her fingers across the screen, and lifted it t
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