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“She tried to take a photo of that psychopathic peacock yesterday” Griffin scoffs as he begins to dig into his food

Rude Shouldn’t ait for Isla?

And speaking of Instagrah I’d left it in ain? Chocolate mousse with miso caramel and ue sitting on top of this stack of deliciousness Not withouta mess

“Are you going to eat it or take a photograph?”

I look up and catch the tiny quirk at the corner of Alexander’s

“I was thinking about it,” Idown at it, “but I don’t have my phone”

“Sos are better just experienced in the moment”

A cold shiver runs through lance Alexander’s way His eyes are focussed onThe intensity in his gaze e of a pair of scissors As though he’s seeing so a little afraid, like being balanced at the top of a fairground ride

A little like I do now

ALEXANDER

AI have never experienced, and I once spent a disagreeable night in a Peruvian hospital after a ratifying I’ve never seen a woman less into Griffin than I have Holland

Holland, not Holly

Jesus, the look she gave me when I called her that It took every ounce of o to her To pick her up, tell her I’m sorry, and carry her out of there When I would’ve probably shaken the living daylights out of her

But I didn’t For obvious reasons But I trust her playacting with my shit of a brother will drive her into my arms at some point

I have to believe that, even if she seeer

Aer to her?