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66. Amaya

Author: Ornella Carey
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He was shameless in every way, undoubtedly deserving to have everything eaten up so he'd stop being a liar. I shook my head and continued with what I was doing, feeling a tremendous discomfort that didn't go away as I researched the branches of phonology, an extra topic that would appear on my exam.

I took a deep breath and decided to focus as much as possible, studying like a possessed person. This led to a tall, blond, good-looking man with an enigmatic smile approaching me.

"Studying for finals?" he asked after seeing my book, and I nodded. "You should use Alcalá's book; it's perfect for mode structures, and it gives you a much clearer explanation of the paradigms of multiple phonemes."

I furrowed my brow. "Are you a literature professor?" I asked him directly.

"I'm a research professor at the University of Nevada," he said and introduced himself before sitting at my table, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by my bodyguards. "Henry Miller."

"Like the writer?" I inquired playfully.

"Y
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    "The Russian's wife is very warm, while the Chechen's daughters are troublesome," Alissa told us, and Gemma and I nodded. "The men are much more careful, more respectful, but the thing here is that if they think you're giving them the slightest opening, they'll want to try their luck. That's what led Dante to break one of the Chechens' hands, and since then, they are forbidden to come within five meters of me.""That doesn't sound good at all," I said with some concern. "But I'll play dumb to see what I can pick up. People tend to talk a lot when they think you don't understand them."And that was a truth I had unfortunately experienced firsthand, a truth that had made things a bit awkward at times in my life, like the time I caught the Spanish teacher calling us idiots, or the time an old Karate instructor unabashedly called us pieces of pig crap.When I told my father about it, he pulled me out of that Dojo, and three weeks later, they closed it down for something I had no idea abou

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