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CHAPTER FORTY SIX: The Room

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Liam's POV

She does not answer immediately.

She stands there with the wine glass loose in her hand and the hotel robe hanging slightly open at the collar and her hair coming loose from where she had it tied earlier, and she looks at me the way you look at something you tell yourself cannot not possibly happen. Her lips part, jaw drops slightly. Her eyes flick past me to the door closed behind me. Then back to me.

And whatever she was about to say she does not say, because the specific muscle in
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