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EIGHT

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- ISOBEL -

What is taking her so long? I'm starving.

"Nina, get out of the bathroom!" I yell from the other side of the door. She locked the bathroom. I can't freaking go in and I don't know what she's doing.

"Just a minute!" She yells from behind the door.

"You said that thirty minutes ago. Who on earth goes late to their own event?" I ask annoyed, rolling my eyes.

"Me apparently." Nina says. I groan.

Nina hasn't told me what she's celebrating nor who the mysterious person I'd meet is and I'm going crazy here.

I swallow. Especially when all my mind can think of is him. I want him. Crave him. It's been months yet he's painted my mind with his finger prints.

Delicious fingerprints. What I'd give to feel his lips on mine again.

A gasp leaves my lips. When I woke up the morning after, he was gone. There was no trace of him nor of us ever spending the night there. Not even the scent of whiskey. If my body didn't feel the way it did, I would've thought it was a
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