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As if /span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"he/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" were the fragile one, and brought it up to his face. A manic, soft gleam echoed in scarlet eyes webbed with velvet textures. He breathed in gently and exhaled, proclaiming he heard nothing from her mind. He let go, but slowly, feeling each dimple on her joints and the pads of her palms, before lastly ringing the thumbprint of her. He savored every second of it. His hissing of her name as if every syllable was it's own word, "/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="SpellingError SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Issss/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"-a-/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="SpellingError SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"belll/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"-/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="SpellingError SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"aaah/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"." Lilting off his tongue. She was taken aback. No one treated her with such prudence. Not even Edward. The way in his good/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"-/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"bye he fondled her face, leaving a hot trail of crimson in his wake and tremors in her system. Her body responded to it and left her aching. Alice and her supposed beloved marked it off as fear, but she alone knew of her body's betrayal. /span /span/spanspan class="EOP SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"span class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"...the extravagant gift he gave her? Oh dear lord./span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" It was akin to a sugar daddy giving his baby a car or something. Edward got her the car. But it made her feel all the more important when it was a high ranking, hypnotic, dominant personality./span /spanspan class="EOP SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"span class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"In her head, back at the present day and age, she looked Aro dead in the eyes and wondered offhandedly if this is what Eve felt like when she partook in the apple./span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" She worked through any possible scenarios for a happy ending, or at least a means to end this torture. /span /spanspan class="EOP SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"span class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"She kissed Edward on the cheek and hugged her daughter. "I'm sorry, it's the only way."/span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" She choked back a sob. She'd miss this life and her daughter. "I can visit her?" She contested slightly. "Right!" She said that word boldly./span /spanspan class="TextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span class="NormalTextRun SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" With every burning emotion she'd ever felt. /span /spanspan class="EOP SCX230856632" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/span/p
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