RILEYNora was asleep when we got home. Mara was in the kitchen with tea and the particular quality she had at the end of a day when she had been useful — not visibly pleased with herself, simply settled. She looked at me when I came in and read my face the way she had been reading my face for seventeen years."How was it," she said."It worked," I said.She looked at me for a moment. Then she got up and put her arms around me. This was not a thing Mara did frequently — she expressed care through competence, through the projections run before you asked and the food brought before you said you were hungry and the seventeen-year friendship that had survived twins and a business and an Alpha biker and everything else. When she hugged you it meant the thing that happened was the kind of thing that required the actual physical acknowledgment of another person.I held on.After a moment she stepped back and picked up her tea."Tell me," she said.I told her. The presentations, the Elena-Hah
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