Audrey's POVThe thing about Raphael was that he didn't announce himself.Luca announced himself. Not loudly — he wasn't loud — but there was a quality to his presence that arrived slightly before he did, a gravitational shift in whatever room he was entering. Theo arrived with noise and momentum and usually something to eat. Adrian arrived like a fact: simply, suddenly, already there.Raphael just appeared beside you and said something like, "The coffee here is bad, there's a better place ten minutes away, do you want to walk," and before you'd finished processing the sentence you were outside in the autumn air and apparently going somewhere.That was how it started."I didn't agree to this," I said."You didn't disagree," he said. "There's a difference.""That's a very convenient philosophy.""It's served me well," he said, and tucked his hands into his jacket pockets and walked with the easy loose-limbed pace of someone who was genuinely unbothered by whether you kept up or not, wh
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