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54-Second trial

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Chapter Fifty Four

Aria

I woke up angry, and it wasn't the loud kind, nor was it the screaming, throwing things kind. The one I happened to be graced with, was the simmering kind.

The kind that sits under your ribs and pulses every time you breathe.

The bed beside me was empty when I woke up. Of course it was.

For a moment, I lay there staring at the canopy above, replaying last night like it had been carved into the inside of my skull.

I remembered the way his hands moved over my body, his mou
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