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73. Learn the World – Part 2
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~ CARA ~
The skin on the back of my neck prickled.
Rig put a hand to my back, but I leaned around him to look at Natalie who’d just walked into the room looking gorgeous as usual, unwinding a scarf from around her neck, her cheeks pinked by the cold outside.
The guys greeted her casually, which made me feel even tenser, but I swallowed it back. She’d been out in the forest with them—apparently completely unfazed by them being naked. She’d known them since they were kids. She was… one of them.
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