Luca glances up at me. “Nothing,” he murmurs, blushing a little bit as he gathers his book back up. As he does I realize that his actions were not performative or attention-seeking at all, but instead the very real result of very real frustrations.
In a flash, I wonder how and why I didn’t feel that down the bond – has he been closing that on me? Or…
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