What is he thinking? Heβll draw attention and people will think heβs attracted to her or something instead of what heΒ reallyΒ is, which is confused. He wants to know where his emotional support minion disappeared to and wonβt spare a thought for how that might look on camera.Β She sends him frosty looks whenever he stirs in her direction, grateful and furious that he reads her loud and clear. Her emotions swirl like a leaf around a whirlpool, dread growing as sheβs sucked deeper and deeper.Β Thereβs going to be a reckoning.Β She canβt avoid it.Β Colin is determined to speak with her before this night is over, she just knows it.Β
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