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ZEKE
It was party time, and the small gathering was…more than small. I stopped counting when it hit in the fifties. Ava looked ready to faint. Which was cute to watch because her eyes had these little crinkle lines around them, and her mouth somewhat turned into fish-lips, which was f*****g adorable. Her cheeks got a little pink at the top and pale in the middle. And then there was the whole thing where she didn’t know what to say or do, and she stood there, like she was frozen in the middle of oncoming traffic.
I could watch her all day long, like right now as she was on the other side of the living room. She got backed into a corner when Blaise’s woman and Blaise’s brother’s woman arrived. They made a beeline for Ava and hadn’t left her side.
There was another in that group, but I
