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A violent wave of nausea rolled through Kat as she stared at the newspaper. Her world, so carefully constructed to protect her from everything, was now crumbling around her. Ripples of an emotional aftershock rocked through her and her limbs quaked. The paper crinkled as she clenched her fists and blinked back tears.
The newspaper had been lying on her study table, abandoned by some reader before she and Lacy had come to the library to study. As they’d settled in, something on the front page had caught her eye.
The image knocked the breath from her lungs.
There it was. A grainy, black-and-white photo of a man and a woman in the back of a pub. The man had the woman pinned against the wall, one hand sliding up the outside of her skirt. Their mouths were locked in a deep kiss.
She rec
