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Roanoke, Part 2
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2021-10-07 21:18:19Note: Please read the previous chapter first as it's been mostly rewritten (Oct. 7, 21) or you might not understand what's happening in this chapter. Sorry, and thanks.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Roanoke, Part 2
“Are you okay?” Ollie asked in that gentle voice of his that just made me weak in the knees.
I know, I really have become a cliché. But I guess that wasn’t such a bad thing.
He had his arms around my waist while I leaned against my beetle’s front door and resisted the urge to kiss him again. We’d done that en
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