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Sometimes I want to punch Perry in the throat

"I think we have a fairly good excuse for canceling," Cooper says soothingly "So you let me handle Perry You take care of the situation here"

The weight of his strong hands oneffect, and for the first ti there--maybe for the first time since her resident’s in to feel calm

I wrap my own arms around Cooper’s waist, comforted, as always, by his warmth, and the smell of the fabric softener we use, mixed with his own innate Cooperish scent

"I’m sorry I snapped," I say "It seems horrible to say under these circu over the seating arrangements with you"

"Not horrible," he says "Human And another one of the many reasons I love you"

He kisses me, then, almost as abruptly as he appeared, he slips out the door to room 1416 and disappears down the back staircase, well before the elevator doors open and several unifor around questioningly

"Down here," I call, raising an ar Cooper isn’t here, I think, or he’d co as Jasmine

At that very moment the door to room 1412 opens, and a pale brown, inquisitive face, fra hair peers out, first aton?" the girl asks drowsily

"Nothing," I say, noting that the hand on her door--in construction paper cut into the sa--has the nah, and Ameera written on it in sparkly silver cursive "Go back to bed"

The girl doesn’t listen Even washed free of e and dark and beautiful

"Why are there police here?" she asks in a sleep-roughened voice She has a British accent "Has so for you to worry about,noisily as he strides toward us "We got it under control Go on back inside your roo in the middle of the hallway in her creaown, her brown feet bare, her hair a riotous ebony halo around her sliold chain around her neck, frole softly when she walks

I know that all the other residents of rooh--are out to lunch at Nobu with Prince Rashid This girl, then, h’s mother described as "a slut"

I’m not sure what a slut is supposed to look like, but to el I re "airl a prince--or any boy--would find aaze travels past me, into Jasmine’s room

"That’s where my RA, Jasmine, lives," she says, fully awake now "Is she there? Jasmine?" Ameera darts toward the door I’ve foolishly left opened behind e to catch her around the waist--she’s slih much more than one One of the female officers darts forward to help es to drag both myself and the feh so that she sees her RA’s dead body on the bed

That’s when A tiht

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