Chapter 23: AlmostThe kitchen was small in the morning.It had never been small before.The penthouse was enormous by any reasonable measure, floor to ceiling windows, marble everywhere, the kind of space that was designed to make people feel the weight of what it cost. Liora had never once described it as small.This morning it was small.She was at the counter waiting for the coffee and he came in from the bedroom already dressed, dark trousers, shirt not yet buttoned at the collar, and the kitchen immediately lost approximately forty percent of its available space.She looked at the coffee machine.He moved to the counter beside her.Not touching. Just beside her. His arm almost at hers, reaching past her for a mug, and she was acutely aware of the almost in a way that would have been embarrassing to explain to anyone."Slept well?" he said."Fine.""You were still asleep when I got up.""I told you I was fine."He looked at her sideways. She kept her eyes on the coffee machine.I
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