Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage
Lucas appeared in the doorway sometime after ten, as though some part of him had known exactly where to find me, and neither of us pretended surprise at the coincidence, both too tired of pretending to bother with it now.
"I should not be here," he said, though he made no move to leave.
"Neither should I, technically, in my own library."
A small, tired smile crossed his face, gone as quickly as it appeared. "You know what I mean."
I did know, and the honesty between us had grown too large by now to keep folding back into denial. "I have spent four days telling myself the terrace was the end of something, not the beginning."
"Has it worked?"
"No." The word came out easier than I expected, som
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