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open in front of him, the pages unfolded and flat against the granite. He was very still. Not the stillness of relief. Something else.
“Well?” I said from the doorway.
He looked up. His face was a thing I had never seen before — cracked open in a way I didn’t have language for.
“He’s mine,” Marcus said.
I nodded. I did not say I told you so, though I had continue reading …
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