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Roxie's POVThe Queen's expression didn't change by a single degree. That was the frightening thing about her. She turned her head toward him with her chin still soft and her brows still kind, and she looked so thoroughly, genuinely fond that a person who hadn't known better would have felt sorry fo

His arm was warm under my hand. He walked slower than he had earlier, just enough that I could keep pace without lifting my skirts.At my door he stopped. His arm came away. Then his hand closed over my knuckles, brief and light, and stayed a beat past the point the gesture required."Roxie.""Your

"Silverleaf," I said, setting it on his desk between us. "Mixed into the cooking spices. It doesn't do anything to you on its own, but it counteracts the treatment. Slowly, over days. Someone designed this to undo exactly what I've been doing, and they knew enough about the method to calibrate it pr

The blonde girl in the front row had her phone out. Two others were whispering.I looked at Jennifer's face — the cold confidence, the satisfaction poorly hidden behind concern. She thought she'd won. She thought she'd backed me into a corner in front of witnesses, and now all she had to do was wait

Behind me, cloth shifted.I looked up into the mirror on the far wall.He had turned. Only his head, only just, and the mirror showed me all of it at once: him at the window with his shoulder still squared away from the room, and his face half-turned, and his eyes on the glass.And me in the glass.