The Pretender's Game
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"𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚... 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚..."
In the beautiful city of Miami, Florida:
She's a master of manipulation, a sociopath who thrives on control. Melissa is a beautiful 17 y/o girl who, to the world, is awfully kind, and strikingly charasmatic. She enters an "innocent" study of a guy's behavior, not just any guy, Jaxon Burrows. She wasn't expecting to become emotionally involved due to the way her mind works, but as she observes him, something unexpected stirs within her-a vulnerability she thought was WAY beneath her. What starts as a premeditated game, planned down to every detail, turns into something far more complicated, and for the first time, she finds herself questioning everything about her.
"𝙄'𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙗𝙪𝙩... 𝙨𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚."
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