Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
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Started reading December 3, 2025
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basking in the gothic glory of Parsons Manor.
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I’m the type to stare dead into your face with a frozen smile after being asked a question while my brain processes the fact that I didn’t even hear the question.
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His eyes. One so dark and bottomless, it feels like staring into a well. And the other, an ice blue so light, it’s nearly white, reminding me of a husky’s eyes. A scar slashes straight down through the discolored eye, as if it didn’t already demand attention.
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I’m wearing the same sweatpants I’ve been wearing the past week, there’s a mysterious stain on my crotch, and no, I don’t want to fucking come over.
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There’s someone watching me. I can feel it. I’m as sure of it as I am about the existence of gravity. 
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They’re a shitty color, just like his shitty personality and even shittier stroke game.
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Well, in this case—if you don’t want to get caught and charged for murder, dispose of the body yourself.
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All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.
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I created an entire organization built solely around ending human trafficking. I started out as a hacker exposing the truths of our corrupt government. And then, as I became more aware of their true nature—the depravity of their sickness, it turned into personally snuffing out every single one of these sick bastards, starting from the bottom up. 
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No one can do this job and lose their fucking shit,
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No—the girls in this warehouse are far tougher than he could ever hope to be. He's just a whiny bitch trapped in a man’s body.
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my hand nearly shaking from the fury of having to unhook a fucking collar from a little girl’s neck.
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UNKNOWN: Sneaking off with random men, little mouse? If I catch his hands anywhere near you, they’ll end up in your mailbox by morning.
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but then he went and topped it off by implying Addie wasn’t anything special. She’s the first of her kind to exist, and there will never be another like her.
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His face turns beet red, like the apples my mother used to pluck for me from the orchard as a kid. Always loved those things.
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An array of emotions filter through his eyes. Pretty sure I see the five stages of grief in there, too.