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Benji
Well, I’ll be damned. The little girl with the pale grey eyes took me completely by surprise.
I’d dropped all pretense and gone straight for the jugular. I told her exactly what I was thinking, the God-honest truth. Some girls might have run away. Some would have shrugged and gotten to it. Her reaction was perfect, though, so different from anything I’d ever experienced. She’d gone from stunned to awed to eager in a matter of moments. If I were being honest, I’d undergone a weirdly similar process. The twinge in my chest that had grown stronger every second I spent talking to Carmen was baffling, then it was overwhelming, and now, as the words I’d just said lingered in the air, it was transforming into a ravenous f*****g monster. I wanted to tear this girl apart and make her moa
