Lycian carried my bag to the lecture hall door like it was the most natural thing in the world.It had become the most natural thing in the world.He walks me to class three mornings a week now. Fell into step beside me somewhere between the estate gate and the biology building, his hand finding mine without either of us deciding it would. Eleven weeks pregnant and we had built this small routine so quietly that I hadn’t noticed it solidifying until it was just part of how Tuesdays worked.He stopped at the door the way he always did. He never came in. We had figured that out early, me needing the classroom to be mine alone, and he had accepted it without discussion or complaint. Just stopped at the door, handed over my bag, waited.I stood on my toes and kissed him. Brief and warm. His free hand came up and touched my face, just his fingertips against my jaw, the lightest possible contact. That small thing undid me more than anything larger would have. The gentleness of it. The way h
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