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Bonus 2
CHRISTIAN AND VANESSA’S
DINNER DATE
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Bodyguard
Christian looked into the mirror, once again debating the rationality of he was about to do.
“You’ve lived in the shadows your entire life. It’s time to let people know what an amazing person you are.”
Sia had told him that, a sister’s concern for a person she had so readily accepted as her older brother.Even so, the world wasn’t ready for him. Not yet. And he had his doubts if it’ll ever be ready.
“The world is ready, big brother. It’s you who has to be prepared to accept yourself. And I think it’s time. People will talk. They always do. But you don’t have to let them get under your skin.”
He’d always been the optimistic one, that Julian. He was scarred in an entirely different way than him. Julian’s scars had been internal, while his were
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