His Luna, His Ruin
George smiled.
The specific, small, completely genuine smile that she had catalogued as her favorite version of all his expressions — the smile that arrived when he was neither performing for an audience nor managing a situation, when he was simply finding something worth smiling about.
"She's not going to tell you," he said. "She's going to show you."
Julia looked at her daughter.
Luna looked back.
And smiled.
Not the newborn reflexive expression — the specific, genuine, intentional smile of someone who has identified the person they are communicating with and is communicating something specific.
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