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2024-10-29 19:42:56“You chose to sit aside me!” She defended.
Irrelevant. Not what I asked.
“And if I’d touched you?” Sebastian repeated quietly.
“Certainly not! You are incessantly brushing my hand or touching my hair.”
“Because you’re irresistible.” He stated simply. Lurching forward in his seat, laughing in his frustration.
He’d just been considering touching the flowing silver strands wisping around her shoulder and cheek.
“I fail to see the relation to you leaving meals, and her leaving if you touch her?” Alazar asked in confusion. Blinking rapidly as he struggled to catch up.
“She refuses my touch, and anything I touch.”
That was my point.
She wouldn’t be eating the food in the library if she knew I touched it.
Interesting quirk for a woman who melts when I touch her.
“Not all the time.” She whispered under her breath. Cheeks flushing slightly but only Bast caught it. Head
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