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he murmurs, and I’m not sure if it’s meant for me or for himself, “but I don’t regret it.”
I have no time to answer, because I hear footsteps in the hallway—heavy but quiet, as if whoever is approaching is trying not to be noticed. Demon appears in the doorway, his eyes fixed on us—not in a way that says he saw the kiss, but with that sensitivity he has for reading the air, for detecting when something has shifted even if he doesn’t yet know what. I see it in the slight hardening of his gaze, in how he stands there a second longer than necessary before crossing the room to set something on the table.
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