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Chapter 79

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Randy's pov

The room had gone to the particular quality of silence that fills spaces when a large number of people have collectively decided that what they are watching is more important than anything they were doing before they started watching it.

I could feel it around me, the held attention of it, the way the ambient noise of the evening had dropped away and left something cleaner and more focused in its place. Glasses that had been on their way to mouths had paused. Conversations that had
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