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• The new arrangement—if you could call it that—lasted two weeks before anyone noticed.
• Liora was careful. So was Dashiell. They never disappeared at the same time. Never looked at each other too long at family dinners. Maintained perfect, professional distance in public.
• But at night, when Leander was deep in medication-induced sleep, Liora would slip down to Dashiell's wing. Sometimes they talked. Sometimes they made love. Sometimes she just lay in his arms, her growing belly between them, and let herself breathe.