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A Cold Sweat
Carolina woke up in a cold sweat.
Her heart was racing.
She had had the most vivid dream.
Her mother had been medically abused by Dr. Roberts.
She and Russ were broken up, and she was a companion for a Crime Lord.
She looked at the clock on her nightstand table.
It was 2.a.m.
She pulled her knees up to her chest.
The dream had been so vivid.
Carolina put her hand to the place where the gunshot wound had been. There was nothing there, but the sat
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