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What are you doing here? she asked. You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall, he said hoarsely. What? Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. Me.

Sabrina Jeffries

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Sabrina Jeffries
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 21
Author
Novelist
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Deborah Martin
Deborah Nicholas
Throat
Toward
Asked
Hoarsely
Left
Strode
Heart
Purposefully
Something
Forgot
Hall
Halls

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