Shattered Longings

Chapter 50 There is Hardly Anything There

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Teing a light sleeper, she needed avery specific environment to rest. The courtyard was out of the question, and the rocking chair was nowhere near as comfortable as her bed. Soon, she started to feel unconderable all over.

she rose from her seal and went inside, casually tossing Dominic’s suit jacket entothe rocking chair

Didn’the dislike being treated so casually she deliberately wanted to make him uncomfortable, preferably so uncomfortable that he couldn’t bear to see her for even a

When the ked into the thing room, she kicked off her slippers, leaving them on the four as she padded around barefoot

Sylvia called her for lunch, and she walked into the dining room and sat access from Dominic. He studied her with acts look, probably thinking she was being too caveal that dry.

Put your shoes an “he ardered

“I don’t want to. They hurt my feet,” she responded with a spoon in her mouth. Then, she suddenly felt something touch her feet.

down, she noticed that he had pushed his sppers fender the

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asked, “Are you

harsh with you to get you to do what say? Are you–Pergel it Do

that, he set his cleryd and went upstairs, kening

sigh of celler. If he kept this up,

she frike she could fall deepstanding up. She

He was standing by the window with his back to her, talking on the phone. The white shirt and ash–gay tromess accentuated his longs, making him look

lur gaze and

she went to her

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they would

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looked performer

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