Chapter 237

• I didn’t push, not yet. “Alright.”
• We walked for a beat, her swaying like someone who’d fought a war and barely crawled home afterward. Then I remembered something I needed to confirm, and I threw it in lightly. “I hope you and Fiona sorted things out. You know, she told you the truth.”
• Milicent let out this tired sigh that sounded like it scraped her lungs on the way out. “Yeah. We talked about everything and although she didn't feel safe enough to face the embarrassment of telling me her classroom kinks... I could tell she… she’s madly in love with you, Liam.”