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Flora snorts softly and flashes Mateo a grin, twisting in her chair just enough to bounce her eyebrows at him. "We could make a greenhouse," she says brightly, emphasis deliberate and entirely smug.
And then Ronin and Remi start speaking, and the words land in a way that is so wildly unexpected that Flora cannot even pretend to process them politely. She laughs outright, a sharp, incredulous burst that escapes her before she can catch it, shoulders shaking once as if the absurdity of it all has short-circuited her usual instincts. She turns sharply toward Mateo mid-laugh, eyes widening. "What?" The word punches out of her as her mouth falls open in exaggerated disbelief. "Isla is pregnant?" Her gaze flicks somewhere distant for half a heartbeat as she mutters under her breath, "good for Ever," before she drags herself back into the moment.
Whatever softness might have followed is immediately packed away again, her expression snapping into something theatrically biting as she looks back at Mateo, clearly clocking the way he is holding himself. "Well?" Flora presses. "Is that why?"
And then Ronin and Remi start speaking, and the words land in a way that is so wildly unexpected that Flora cannot even pretend to process them politely. She laughs outright, a sharp, incredulous burst that escapes her before she can catch it, shoulders shaking once as if the absurdity of it all has short-circuited her usual instincts. She turns sharply toward Mateo mid-laugh, eyes widening. "What?" The word punches out of her as her mouth falls open in exaggerated disbelief. "Isla is pregnant?" Her gaze flicks somewhere distant for half a heartbeat as she mutters under her breath, "good for Ever," before she drags herself back into the moment.
Whatever softness might have followed is immediately packed away again, her expression snapping into something theatrically biting as she looks back at Mateo, clearly clocking the way he is holding himself. "Well?" Flora presses. "Is that why?"
The rumors are terrible and cruel
But honey, most of them are true
But honey, most of them are true
