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Chapter 47
Declan:
Aster lay on her side, her fist tucked under her chin, watching him. Declan asked her once if she wanted to talk about the week that had passed, but she didn’t – he was relieved, because what would he tell her? He spent a week feeling sorry for himself, finding increasingly more bizarre ways to blame her for Mary’s death, even after Rowan told him the truth … that just meant he had a new person to blame for a while.
“You know what I miss?” she asked.
“Hm?”
“Food. You know…not so much the taste, but just the act of…chewing.”
“You can eat. You won’t like it, but you can eat.”
She laughed, and nestled into the crook of his arm. “Did you miss it? Right after you were transformed?”
“Not really. Our diets were pretty simple. Maybe a little more elaborate if you were nobility; but it was still mostly just fi
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