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"'What if something did happen to you?' I blanched at the thought. 'Would you want me to go off myself?'

A trace of pain touched his perfect features.

'I guess I see your point...a little,' he admitted. 'But what would I do without you?'
'Whatever you were doing before I came along and complicated your existence.'

He sighed. 'You make that sound easy.'"

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