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I think I got to frown. I’m not quite sure. If I did, it lasted less than a heartbeat, because his lips brushing mine melted it —and me— away. My eyelids fell, erasing whatever surrounded us, and I stood on my tiptoes to reach his lips better.
He broke our kiss a lot sooner than I would’ve wanted, and met my eyes with that warm smile that was my doom.
“Tell me again who’s in the Manor right now?” he whispered, his thumb tracing my parted lips.
A stray brain cell, sole survivor of his kiss, helped me answer. “The Blotters.”
“Three, four of them?”
“Six.”
“Six, wow. And your two friends, and Isaac, right?”
“Yes.”
“And a demon in the garden.”
“He’s not a demon.”
“Well, your hellhound pet in the garden.”
“Yes.”
He tilted his head and I knew whatever he
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