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CHAPTER 9

Author: Emma Swan
last update Last Updated: 2021-06-03 00:00:40

          Happy that she’d justified her actions to herself, and not willing to pay attention to the buzz of something in her blood when she heard the strains of her favorite blues CD coming from the sound system, she found it soothing rather than scary.

“I hope you don’t mind?”

          Cassandra looked over to where Sébastien was bent down at the system, the material of his trousers and shirt straining over taut, hard muscles in his thighs and back. She shook her head, her mouth feeling very dry.

“No… no… Cass, stop…” she whispered almost imperceptibly and took another quick sip of wine.  

          The dinner was extremely pleasant and by the time Cassandra was taking his cleared plate from him, and apologizing again that their dinner had been on

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Gosh that’s hard to do I know to just walk away
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