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The two children clung to Natalie, playing with her for a while before she started helping them pick out a kindergarten.

Baron came out of the gym, took a brisk shower, and then joined his wife and kids for a bit of playtime.

Neither of them spoke about the storm quietly brewing beneath the surface.

Part of it was to keep the children from worrying; part of it was because they both believed they could handle it.

After lunch together, the children were taken off for their nap.

Baron still had work to attend to, so he headed to the Ocean City branch of Grant International Holdings.

Natalie, meanwhile, called Chris.

“Chris, take the Stone family men and come with me to Cloud Cafe.”

She had never intended to face Jensen alone.

Five years ago, she had been foolish.

Back then, Jensen had been her salvation; her only light.

She never imagined that in the end, she would nearly die at his hands.

All the love she had poured out meant nothing to him.

This time, she was determined to guarantee her own safety.

After all, she wasn’t alone anymore.

Chris obeyed Natalie’s order without question.

behind to watch over

Natalie arrived at Cloud Cafe, Jensen

picturing what the woman he loved most

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had been so severe;

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skin grafts. Finding matching skin would be even harder–even with the Witch Doctor, it seemed

it didn’t matter. No matter how Natalie had changed,

gaze stayed locked on the door of Cloud Cafe, his anticipation growing unbearable; anyone who looked remotely unusual

eye.

than half an hour, she still hadn’t

Natalie would never

an hour early, saved him

was what waiting

the same anxious anticipation Natalie had

wind chime above the café door

to be

black

in a matter

made

cleared out along with everyone else meant only one thing, Natalie had to be behind this. But how? Where had she found the kind of power

ut an entire

wrestled with the thought, Chris bowed respectfully toward the entrance. “Miss, you

open rattled the chimes; Jensen’s

boots

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scarves; not a shrunken figure hiding

was a bloodstained blade wrapped

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