Arwen's POVI start the list on a napkin at breakfast because paper feels more honest than a phone note for something like this.“What pack are you from originally?” Cole asked that on day three. I thought he was making conversation.“Have you ever had any physical reaction to silver? Burns, rashes, sensitivity?” Day five, framed as curiosity about hybrid biology.“Do you know anything about your biological parents? Even rumours?” Day seven, while we were studying, voice perfectly casual, eyes on his textbook.I write them all down. Every question Cole Ravencrest has asked me since he sat across from me in the library with coffee and a story about his sister. There are eleven questions. They span two weeks. Individually, each one is the kind of thing a new friend might ask a girl who arrived at a supernatural academy with no history and unusual power. The kind of thing someone might ask out of genuine curiosity and growing affection.Together, in sequence, on a napkin in my handwritin
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