For all her experience and street-smarts, Mara can be a little dense sometimes. “Because the story was full of sex,” I say. “Graphic sex. And Pres’ mom doesn’t want her only daughter getting knocked up at high school. And…oh…oh no. Presley. What’s your fanfic about? Tell me it doesn’t star a guy named Pax?” “No,” she says haughtily. “His name, if you must know, is Dax, and the whole story is completely unrelated to my life here at Wolf Hall.” If this is how she sounded when she tried to sell this lie to her mother, it’s no wonder she’s now on birth control. Mara’s eyes dance with mischief. She
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