What Was Never Mine
When his hand finally closed around mine, warm and steady, the world seemed to narrow to that single point of connection.
I had been touched before, of course. A brush in passing, a careless grip when someone was in a hurry. But this—this was different. This was attention. Reverence, almost.
“You are thinking again,” he murmured.
“I am always thinking,” I said.
“Yes,” he agreed softly. “That is what I admire most.”
The word lodged itself in me, dangerous and bright.
I looked up then, really looked at him, at the faint shadow beneath his eyes, the line of his mouth when he was not smiling for the court. I wondered, not for the first time, if anyone else ever saw him like this—unguarded, almos
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