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Chapter 14 - Standing on Ice

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Rae

By the time classes ended for the day, I was starting to suspect Jesse Vicker had somehow obtained my schedule.

Not guessed it.

Not casually figured it out.

Obtained it.

He had been waiting outside my next class after leaving me beneath Grant’s stare in the courtyard. Then he had been waiting again after Pack Law. Then again after Supernatural History, leaning against the wall with one ankle crossed over the other like showing up everywhere I happened to be was the most natural thing in the
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