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MONIQUE

What is happening?

"What is this?" Ryan asks, raising the phone between us.

I swallow hard, forcing down the panic that’s threatening to rise. I don’t respond to Ryan's questions.

Ryan places the phone on my lap as we sit next to each other. Our thighs nearly touch. Not quite, but enough to make my skin crawl. I shift slightly away from him.

I pick it up, place it right back on his thigh.

“It looks like a phone to me.”

“Yes,” he says quietly, his lips curving into something that isn’t
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Linda Crabtree
this story is so long let Ryan help her
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Linda Crabtree
he already kill a girl be careful ...
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Lanie Ramos
why so mean?
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