She’d lately been trying to understand her burgeoning hesitations toward Kamran, and the more she interrogated her feelings, the more she’d begun to wonder whether it was, in the end, less that he’d wounded her vanity and more that he hadn’t respected her mind. Certainly she didn’t expect him to exchange his every thought and opinion for hers—but her fears and concerns should’ve mattered to him. They should’ve mattered at least enough to give him pause. To warrant a discussion. It bothered her that they hadn’t. “I’m not displeased to see you,” she said, and meant it. “In fact, I’m truly happy
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