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The way you leaned against the shelf was as deliberate as a lawyer in a Savannah courtroom, all sharp angles and unearned confidence.
He leaned against the philosophy section, looking less like a shopkeeper and more like a man waiting for a stunt coordinator to call action.
The cedar planks were humming with the heat, and she stood there with that digital timer clicking against her thigh like a second heartbeat.
The ice in Ben’s glass had melted into a single, jagged shard by the time Elias finally put his hand on my knee.
The rain was coming down in sheets of gray iron, blurring the world outside until there was nothing left but the two of them and the smell of old paper.
I watched the way his thumb traced the spine of that first edition, a slow, calloused drag that made my own skin prickle.