‘I could have unbound half of the Underground by now if I’d just used my stupid magic yesterday – you know I could have. Do you really care so little about that?’ He sobered up so abruptly that I startled. ‘What?’ It came out too harsh, that one word. Too brusque. I opened my mouth, closed it again, got out an unpleasantly defensive, ‘I mean—’ ‘Of course I care about the bindings, Em,’ he interrupted sharply – much too sharply, the bite in his voice a flawless match to the sudden bitterness twisting his lips. As if I’d mortally offended him. As if I’d crossed some invisible line no one had
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