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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="374637782d26afd4ced8a1b489a7d5d0"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"He's unfaithful. /emKlaus rolled his eyes and took them off of Dean, he just stared at the chocolate flower on his hands instead and smiled. What would be her reaction once she gets out of there and sees all these? Klaus knows this isn't the grandest he can give, but it's enough. He knows it's enough. Camille was never a fan of grand and expensive things, she is not high-maintenance. She is very simple, that's a thing to like about her./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="124b36a47b81ba0fc39c25fed5c3c7c5"Before she left Mystic Falls, the inhumane vampire Elena, dead Bonnie, feuding Salvatore's, and the shitty version of Tyler, Stefan told her to beware of Klaus. He once left her a voice message that says he wants her to be here in New Orleans so she can have a tour that's why she knows it's not impossible for her to bump to him. But here? Of all places, she will find Klaus in this university? And he's friends with her new guy?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bbaadf5c7762358d5256dec8c7d97b5a"She wanted to act rude but Dean is here, so she pretended to not know him at all and take his hand. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Caroline Forbes."/span Her voice was cold but she immediately softened when she faced Dean and released Klaus' hand. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You guys know each other?"/span She asked Dean./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f5682ce9e59e40b262c05a29367fa20e"But if she's compelled, she has to save her first thing. With this, Caroline had to ask. /p
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