To all the world, Charlotte and Lu were friends, but in reality they were much more than that. It hadn’t been long after Oliver entrusted Charlotte with the reality of who he was that Charlotte had shared a secret of her own with him—that she and Lu were lovers. Lu was a married woman, but being in the army, her husband was absent for months at a time, so Lu spent most of her days visiting with Charlotte. It had been the strangest relief to learn that Oliver’s closest friend was breaking convention in her own way. While it wasn’t the same as Oliver’s experience, of course (Charlotte and Lu
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