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10: Trouble for Quynn
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"Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies."
~Sara ShepardTwo days later...
Since the first night of my return, I haven't seen any trace of Eli and I should be happy right? But I'm not instead I am terrified!
Anna told me how Eli work was 24/7 and sometimes slept at the office which I understood before everything started, but a part of me wonders if he's away because he sensed something was different with me- the Anna he met that night. I can't shake off the thought and it has been giving me a hard time and barely making me think straight and my panic is almost every hour. I remember him pausing after
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