Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie novel · Chapter 38 of 40

Chapter 38: The Place He Keeps

Sera had his shirt in her hands before he had finished turning, and she did not hand it to him. She held it open and waited, and Kael stood still beside the guest-room table with his arms at his sides and let her decide.

'Turn,' she said.

He turned. She brought the shirt up over his shoulders and drew it forward, and her knuckles brushed the ridge of his spine, and he did not move into her hand. The corridor light still lay under the door in its thin line. Eln's voice had stopped, but the two sets of footsteps had not gone, and the man who read things aloud into a record was waiting on the other side of the wood.

She walked around him and fastened the buttons from the top down. He watched her face the whole time. His jaw was set the way it went when he was holding something back, and she heard the thing he was holding before he said it.

He is deciding whether to ask me to stay behind.

'You are named in the ledger,' she said. 'You will go down when they call you.'

'I will.'

'You will not take the commission book with you.' She smoothed the collar flat against his neck. 'It stays in this room, under the loose board, where I put it. You do not carry it, you do not offer it, you do not reach for it when Eln asks you a question you do not like.'

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