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Scarlett’s POVI had settled on a sundress, simple and yellow, the kind of thing that required no explanation and offered none, paired with sandals and my hair down, still slightly damp at the ends from the shower. I looked like someone going for a walk. I looked like someone who had not thought too carefully about this.I had thought too carefully about this.Ezra was already there.He was leaning against one of the lobby pillars with the specific quality of ease that some people carried in their bodies naturally, not performing relaxation but actually comfortable with existing in a space, the posture of someone who had arrived and was content to wait without requiring the waiting to be anything other than what it was. He was looking at his phone, not with the anxious scrolling of someone filling time, just reading something with mild interest, and when he heard the elevator, he looked up.His face did the thing.Not elaborate. Not performed. Just a simple, genuine shift, the express

Scarlett’s POVCade, in a normal state of feeling, was already a significant presence in any room. Cade, with his jaw set and his eyes dark and the particular stillness of a man who has been waiting long enough that the waiting has converted itself into something considerably less patient, was something else entirely.He looked at me the way he looked at things that had caused him genuine concern, with that complete, consuming focus that left no room for anything peripheral. And underneath the concern, visible to anyone who knew how to read him, which I did, entirely and against my better interests, was something that had nothing to do with concern and everything to do with the elevator I had just stepped out of and the two hours I had spent not in this hotel room."Not now, please," I said, moving past him toward the door. "I need to shower and rest. I had a fun afternoon."He turned to follow me."Fun afternoon," he said. He said it the way he repeated things when he was working to