Taken By The Beast
I said, walking carefully around the room, studying her.
The book she held in her hand looked like a romance that my mother read when I was small. She didn't move when my shadow fell over her, but jumped up when I snagged the book from her grasp. "Hey!" she shouted, jumping to reach it above my head.
I turned my back toward her, and smiled at the page. "Reading smut, just as I thought," I said, lowering it so she could cradle it to her chest.
"It's not smut. It's romance," she said, closing the book. "Not that I expect you to understand romance."
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