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2024-10-29 19:42:56Hmm... something smelled amazing.
I took a deep breath and my lungs filled again with the same rich, seductive scent.
As I moved a little, my body made contact with another and then I remembered my wife.
At some point in the night, we had switched positions and I had ended up with my face buried in her neck and her arms hugging me.
I didn’t want to move; I was in paradise.
"My secret is buttermilk,” said a voice, breaking my dream moment.
“Really? Louis never uses that.”
"And chocolate chips. The best pancakes have chocolate chips, otherwise they aren’t pancakes.”
“Then I don't know what Louis has fed me these days.”
I was going to kill Alex Hardy.
What the hell was that bastard doing in my house poisoning Aiden's mind?
I started to get up when a sharp pang in my head left me frozen in place, reminding me of what happened the night before.
Shit, the boy had tried to kill me with a tennis
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