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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="59dbb4cd3e8176970bdf238bdc9542c3"She pulled again on my arm but I didn't move./p
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="1286303c173555ec250e83bbe85def3a"She looked at me pleading, " Please Leila. We need to get out of here."/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="e2600261824ff223d5060e2c8844954d"I pulled back from Leila as Adrian began to speak, " We already know we can't change you visions Leila. What is set in motion will remain in motion."/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="4c22aa873ab0528d9b36f8677abd8c47"And just as quickly as I had engrossed myself in him, a new realization struck me like a bullet to the heart. I had been horrible to Lissa./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="db3fec4660e784affec0bec382323c04"His face turned sad and my heart pinged a bit with guilt. It was true. I had been keeping Christian at arms length for many reasons. One being the fact I was extremely pregnant and felt as if I was a whale. I wasn't feeling too attractive these days to have my husband loving on me. The second was I was also keeping Christian away because I didn't know how to tell him about Leila's vision. Just like I didn't know how to tell Rose./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="a3ac47fb8add98c45dd42b33f1b4146a""What is it? Are you ok? The babies ok?" Christian's eyes were bursting with worry. I grabbed his hand and squeezed tightly before a whole load of word vomit occurred./p
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="2dfc3bce82023c150d5653aed936bc88""Leila had a vision a few weeks ago about me dying. I've been keeping it away from you and Rose because I know how you two get and because I mean...what are the chances that Leila's vision comes true? I mean she's never been wrong but she has been a little off recently. Who wouldn't be under all the circumstances she is dealing with right now. Her mother is not an easy person to be related to I bet."/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="2af156e663b1c9d3456e3176b0d4c68e"The question was directed at me but I was distracted by the fact that Eric seemed...almost angry...or upset. He continued to refuse to look at me./p
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