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Chapter 36

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Lia:

I tried to pretend I was reading.

The words blurred anyway.

Marcel’s presence shifted the air in the room, not loud, not imposing, just there. I could feel him watching me before I looked up, and when I did, he was leaning against the doorway, arms crossed, hair still damp, a smirk tugging at his mouth like he already knew what I was thinking.

“You’re blushing,” he said.

“I am not,” I replied too quickly, eyes darting back to the page.

He pushed off the wall and crossed the room, unhurried. “You definitely are. And you are doing your best not to stare.”

I shut the book with a soft thump and hugged it to my chest as I got up, wanting to move as far away from him as I possibly could. “You’re imagining things. I wouldn’t blush over something that is not even there.”

“Am I?” He stopped a few feet away, head tilting slightly. “Or are you just not used to being… looked at?”

That made my stomach flip. I set the book on his desk. He didn’t even try to stop me from approaching it. He just
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