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Chapter 135

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He was quiet for a moment.

Something moved through his expression — the specific, internal quality of someone receiving information that is settling somewhere that required settling.

"I was not aware of the distinction," he said finally.

"I know," I said. "That's what made it honest."

He reached for my hand.

The gesture he had been making since the night in the library when everything between us had shifted from careful distance to something more honest and more costly and more real. The same g
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