12/02/2026 20:20

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You will have your men, and he will have his woman. Radio silence. There was enough light from the kitchen, so I, too, left the living room dark. He didn't so much fall down my body, as spill down it, again that sense of liquid grace that the wereanimals had when they wanted to.

But I kept my doubts to myself. He was at the end of the island looking at me with his serious kitty-cat eyes. Ma petite, he whispered, ma petite. Richard was standing in his kitchen, one hand on the edge of the cabinets as if he were steadying himself.