"That's a bit of a mercenary way of looking at it," she says, though it comes out far less chiding now than it might have before. "Even if it did work out in the end, clearly."
She closes her eyes at the twist of his fingers in her hair, the slight pull there but light enough not to be painful.
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She closes her eyes at the twist of his fingers in her hair, the slight pull there but light enough not to be painful.