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Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies. He grinned. No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

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Maria V. Snyder
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Author
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Care
Endure
Better
Girls
Nothing
Poetry
Things
Listening
Halfhearted
Think
Says
Grinned
Thinking
Enemy
Offering
Girl
Torture
Sense
Enemies

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No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of a good meal is something that hasn't been in a garbage can first. And Kerrick poisoned us-' 'Not on purpose,' Kerrick said. 'The meat looked done.
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But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
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How did you - Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders. Valek grinned. His angular face softened.
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I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
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Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong and steady. No indication that he had been sneaking around.
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Your path is clear,” said Moon Man. “You need to find it.” And the best way to find something you had lost was to return to the last place you remembered having it. In my case, I needed to start at the very beginning.
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