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The lake

Author: Favour
last update publish date: 2026-03-30 01:16:46

The locker closed with a click.

Lior leaned against it and smiled at Derek and told herself the smile was real because he was standing close and his eyes were warm and he was exactly the kind of guy she'd wanted attention from two weeks ago.

He was talking.

She caught pieces of it — something about the weekend, something about a film, something that required her to nod at intervals — and she nodded and smiled and tried to locate the feeling that used to show up when he was this close. That low
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