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Author: Vanessa Pens
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Rhys

Vincent looked stunned and startled to see me, as if he had been caught doing something wrong (but I think it was more that he didn't expect me.) Opposite him were people I had not seen in almost six years.

The most prominent of them was an attractive brunette whose dark eyes were fixed upon me. As attractive as she was, I need not forget that she was the devil incarnate.

“What are you doing here?” Vincent had finally found his voice, but all I could do was stare back at him stupidly like a man who had just been thrown off a building by a rampaging tiger and then landed with a broken arm and fractured leg on a roof.

“What are they doing here?” I asked him back instead. Vincent seemed equally perplexed. It made for a peculiar conversation. “Well, they were about to leave.” He gestured to the two men and one woman.

One of them smiled at me but I turned towards the door, ignoring her, ignoring their presence completely. I pushed past the security that had tried to stop me from get
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