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Author: Maria-Grace
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SABRINA MORALES

There was a man in the kitchen. Barefoot and bubbly, humming a tune I was sure I knew but couldn’t quite remember.

My neck ached from carrying my head, and everything felt heavy like lead and boulders were piled on my shoulders.

“What the…” I grumbled quietly to myself.

My brain was processing things slowly, and time seemed to drag.

Then, bit by bit, it all came back.

Blaze. Mum’s wedding. The semi-family dinner last night. All the drinks I had.

I made a mental note to watch my alcohol intake around ‘Uncle Jason.’

Jo, the man in the kitchen, grabbed the pot and moved it to a different stove. That one didn’t have a flame burning yet.

From the corner of his eye, he saw me.

“You’re up early,” Jo said as he continued doing whatever he was doing.

He looked like he was making breakfast, and a big part of me already felt grateful.

Mum wasn’t an early riser. The unspoken agreement in our relationship was that I woke up at least thirty minutes before and ended up ma
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    BLAZE WILLIAMS“On three!” The brunette doctor took charge, her voice raised just enough to be heard over the shuffle of footsteps and rustling equipment.She kept her voice steady too as she moved with the urgency.“One, two, three—now!” She said.Five pairs of hands were braced along the sides of the man’s gurney, each one ready. At her cue, they acted in perfect sync, shifting the patient swiftly from the gurney to the examination table. The movement was fluid and practiced. You could call it a dance they had done many times. It was an electrifying show.“Here you go,” someone said to Jason, who stood beside me.I had to pull my eyes away from the scene. The doctor who had spoken to Jason was dressed in light blue scrubs, topped with a white coat. His hair was full of tight curls, they hardly moved even as he nodded in response to something Jason asked.“Post-op scans look good,” he said to Jason, glancing at a clipboard before meeting Jason’s eyes again, “but she’s still here

  • Their Little White Lie   Groggy

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  • Their Little White Lie   Mum Knows Best

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  • Their Little White Lie   Close Your Doors

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  • Their Little White Lie   Table For Three

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  • Their Little White Lie   What Do You Think?

    SABRINA MORALES You shouldn’t have. That’s something I’ve said to Blaze about three times tonight, but did I really mean it? He was sitting across from me, smiling and sipping his wine while I watched his lips, full of moisture. I could never have enough of him, could I? “Humiliating is a crazy thing to say,” Blaze said as he wiped a smudge from his sushi. His fingers rubbed the corner of his lips as they moved, eyes on me. “It was humiliating,” I said again, because it was. I was reliving the moment, even though I didn’t want to. I’ve always been good at keeping my business out of my work life, but today, I spilled it all. Everyone knew I got cheated on. Everyone saw me snap like that. They must know too that I broke down in my office later. “Alex should be the one feeling humiliated,” Blaze said. He set his cutlery down and leaned back in his seat like he was waiting to see my reaction to what he’d just said. Alex. I still hated hearing his name. “Well, he wasn’t there,”

  • Their Little White Lie   Addicted?

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  • Their Little White Lie   Spontaneous

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