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Chapter Eight - Neveah
There was nothing like a six a.m. run to get my blood pumping and potentially forget the awkward dinner from hell the night before. I couldn’t stop looking at my plate, even my dad’s eagerness to get the conversation going made me queasy.
The guest house came into view and a low hum glided down to my toes. As badly as I wanted to dislike him, something so magnetic beckoned me nearer and it tittered onto my last nerve.
Lucy bounded toward the porch of the guest house before looking over her shoulder at me.
“We’re not going in there.”She whined but followed me to the house. I took time shaving my legs and fixing my hair, feeling like a sixteen-year-old girl getting ready for a date, but obviously, it wasn’t a date—not by a long shot.
It wasn’t going to happen, anyway, he’d made it loud and clear.
After I finished getting ready, I pulled on the tightest pair of colorful leggings, a white
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With my forehead pressed against the shower wall, I stroked myself harder, undressing her in my mind like a fifteen-year-old boy until I released into the tornado of water at my feet. I groaned as the vision of Neveah in my mind flooded my every thought. I couldn’t stop my eyes the night before. When Chase had hit her, I felt a primal instinct to knock him on his ass, even though it was an accident. I didn’t care. I hated to see her in pain, on the ground with a black eye. Why was this happening to me? She was the dangling meat in front of a starving dog. It was almost nine when I shrugged into my T-shirt and buttoned my jeans. My head had been so wrapped up with thoughts of Neveah that I hadn’t even thought about my sister. That was what frightened me. My phone buzzed against my nightstand, Dante’s number flashed across the screen. I swiped the call, pressed my phone to my ear and asked, “Any news?”Dante si
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