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Chapter 95. To Beg.
Author: JosephtheCarpenter
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(A few hours earlier.)

Saul was so fucked.

It was all he could think as he sat with his phone pressed against his ear.

He was so so fucked.

But he had known that already.

He had known it the moment he'd let her walk out of his office without running after her.

He had known it when he'd spent twenty minutes searching his own apartment for the phone she had given him, the phone he should have been using all along.

He had known it when he'd dialed her number and listened to it ring, each tone a
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