Christopher Robinson
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Galen knew this moment was coming. From the second he decided to lift the dagger, this moment had become a fixed point in his future, an inevitable and unavoidable event. He couldn’t blame Caleb. If it had been Bell, Galen wasn’t sure he would have been able to hold back as much as Caleb already had. “Well…” Caleb growled. Galen swallowed. “I wasn’t thinking,” he said. Caleb pressed his arm into Galen’s throat, forcing a gurgled grunt as he felt the pressure against his…
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They didn’t say much after Fiona and Galen left. Caleb offered to carry her back to their room, but Ashleigh refused. Saying that it would draw too much attention to them. He held her hand as they walked, running his thumb along the soft skin at the back of her hand. Ashleigh focused on the warmth of his hand and the tenderness he was showing her. Each time her mind began to wander back to the memory of what she had done, Caleb would bring her hand to his mouth and gently kiss her. When they reached…
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“Ashleigh!” Fiona shouted, trying to get her attention as she used all her strength to try and control Ashleigh’s movements. But Ashleigh wasn’t responding. Instead, she let out snarls and growls as she twisted and turned, trying to escape Fiona’s grasp. Her eyes were so bright that Fiona could hardly see the hazel in them. “Ashleigh!” she shouted again. “Wake up!” Ashleigh growled and thrust her hips forward, knocking Fiona off of her. She got to her feet and sniffed the air before…
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“Did you find something?” Ashleigh asked with anticipation in her voice. “Yea,” Nessa nodded. “A perfectly healthy, clean system with updated defenses.” Ashleigh took a deep breath. “Nessa, you don’t know Alice or what she’s capable of.” Ashleigh sighed. “I actually think I might know her a little better than you,” Nessa replied matter-of-factly. “I thought you said you had never met her?” Ashleigh asked. “Oh, I haven’t,” Nessa replied. “But I’ve seen her coding.…
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Clara stood perfectly still, her blinking quickened and the smile on her face seemed stalled. “What?” she asked nervously after a silent moment had passed between them. “Did you just… did you say I can… kiss… you?” Nessa suddenly felt very embarrassed. But she nodded. Clara swallowed and licked her lips, balling her hands as she tried to calm her excited heart. “Are you sure?” she asked. “I don’t want you to feel pressured or like you have to do this just because I said I want…
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After running every test, she could think of and then challenging the systems team to develop even more tests. Finally, Nessa was confident that the system restores that Alice had provided them not only worked but were even more defensible than the previous version. Even the system team members that didn’t particularly like Nessa found it impossible to refute her work. Everything came back clean. They checked and double even triple-checked to ensure no data transmissions were leaving or being pocketed…
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She woke with a gasp on her couch. Her hand already holding the knife. She looked at it for a moment and then dropped it, letting it fall to the floor. Bell took deep breaths, trying to calm her racing heart. The alarm on her phone sounded, and before she even had a chance to turn it off, the phone was ringing. The image on display was of Galen lying in bed, a sleepy smile on his face. Bell let out a soft happy sob. She quickly wiped away the tears and cleared her throat. She took a deep breath and sat…
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Axel chuckled, but his smile was half-hearted at best. “Axel?” Bell called to him with concern. “It's nothing,” he said. “You're worried about how Winter will feel about Alice?” she asked. Axel took a deep breath. “Right now, I'm more worried about what's happening to her,” he said. “In the note, she said she was taking another treatment.” Bell let out a mournful sigh. “Why would she do that?” Bell asked. “I don't know, but she gave me a phrase… I think it's to wake…
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Axel held Bell tightly as she let it all out. He reassured her and patted her back, whispering that she had an entire pack that would keep her safe from anyone who would dare to threaten her. It was almost an hour that she cried. She was exhausted by the time she had finally calmed down. “Are you ok?” Axel asked softly as he pulled away from her. “Yes,” Bell said, laying back down in the bed, hugging her pillow to her chest. “I just had a lot of pent-up feelings.” “I’m sorry,” Axel…
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Her heart stopped. Her body froze. The world around her became muffled and blurred. Axel, the room, his voice all clouded together as though she were in the eye of a storm. ‘You are mine…’ she heard the haunting voice from her past whisper in her mind. She heard the sound of her cries, begging him to let her go. His laughter, the sparkle in his fiery eyes as she hit the ground. She saw him on top of her, holding her down as she screamed, a look of excitement on his face as he pushed his…
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