The door clicked shut, sealing them off from the rest of the manor.


    saw what happened, Klarion. You didn’t invite that kiss. You didn’t even react to it. Not really.” He tensed again when she scoffed. “But you also didn’t push her away, either.”


    do know is that I’d rather it had been you who kissed me.”


    of my family — are clear. If I were to—” She stopped herself, shaking her head, ears flattening as she blushed deeply. She didn’t finish the sentence.


    wanted to say more. She just couldn’t for some reason.


    “Doesn’t it?”


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    Whispers of Black Steel beside me?”


    Whispers of Black Steel alongside you, and, oh, I don’t know… meet your family before we got to that step.”