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Cheese and Chances

Author: Jenne Lopes
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Aria.

Axel's lips twitched, and I swore there was a twinkle in his eye.

"Hungry?" he asked casually, as if I wasn't just dying here.

"No—" I attempted to bluff, but who was I kidding? My stomach decided to pull a Judas again and grumbled loud enough to register on the Richter scale.

In one smooth move, he fished out a slice of the piping hot pizza from the oven, the cheese still bubbling like molten lava, and thrust it at me.

"Sit. Eat." His gaze locked onto mine.

The slice of pizza he was brandishing looked sinfully delicious, a decadent sight of melting cheese and glistening toppings that had my mouth watering like a malfunctioning sprinkler system.

I swallowed my saliva. Hard.

Putting on my best poker face, but I knew I failed terribly. I might as well have been a starved mutt eyeing a juicy steak. I was sure my eyes were practically bulging out of my head, my tongue lolling out of my mouth.

Damn it.

Before I could respond, Svetlana interjected. "She's a—"

Her protest was cut off by
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