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Tessa Dare
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April 16 - April 17, 2023
Here, have a drawing of a snail.
Love is just a lie people tell themselves.”
“I think you underestimate my capacity for taking normal human interaction and making it awkward.”
She was curious. She was a romantic. And above all, she was lonely. Hunger, after all, was a more potent seasoning than salt.
“Here I am, struggling to banish any foolish imagined affections for you so that we can consummate this marriage of convenience in a proper businesslike fashion, as we agreed. And then you go and read a book?” While he was at it, why didn’t he just bring her a basket of kittens, a bottle of champagne, and pose naked with a rose caught between his teeth?
“It’s partly the kilt. It’s mostly the swagger.”
“It felt as if I’d tugged on a loose thread of God’s tartan, and a world away, someone tugged back.