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Chapter 12 – Three’s a Crowd

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Asher’s POV

“If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the road to my bedroom is definitely paved with bad decisions, leather jackets, and a staggering amount of unresolved sexual tension.”

The Vale mansion felt like a tomb with better lighting. Usually, the air was thick with my father’s disappointment and the sound of my mother’s ghost, but tonight, with Daniel away closing some soul-crushing merger and Evelyn passed out after a bottle of Pinot, the house was ours.

And by ours,
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