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Chapter Eight

Natasha

Sleep avoided me that night. No matter how many times I turned beneath the sheets or how tightly I shut my eyes, the same words kept returning to me.

How about we get married?

I opened my eyes with a groan and stared at the ceiling in disbelief. Who says something like that over dinner? Apparently, Sebastian Laurent did. Everything about the man felt unsettling in a way I could not explain. He spoke with the kind of calm confidence that made outrageous things sound reasona
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