A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
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Robin’s mind was oddly blank, as it had been sometimes at the end of a particularly fiendish examination, as if he’d scooped out its worthwhile contents with his fingers and smeared them grimly onto the page. The last time he’d felt this way was when he found out that his parents were dead. Instead of surprise, this. An exhausted, wrung-out space.
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a dignified couple who spoke in the shorthand murmurs of the long-married.
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Even when it was mutual, attraction didn’t conjure respect from nowhere. Where contempt existed, attraction could even deepen it.