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2020-11-04 04:06:57Chapter Sixteen
I do not speak to Cleo after our atrocious exchange and she did not speak to me either. When our eyes meet from across the room, we quickly look away like the eye contact burnt us.
She is always in Adam’s arms; laughing and talking about something interesting with their heads lowered together and their lips p
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