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Ashley created small talk which wasn't very important. I wanted to get out but I somehow felt the timing wasn't right. They were conversing normally and I'd hate to just interrupt that. Well, that was until I heard my name.
"So, Ms. Rae, what do you think of Senara?" Ashley asked in an almost suggestive manner. "Do you think she really wrote that book? Armageddon—Dawn of the New Generation? I mean, she's just 16. There's no way someone as young as that can plot out a story that effectively, right? Maybe she just bought the story from a ghostwriter? What do you think? It's easy for her since she's the girlfriend of that hot young man, Kaiden, right?"