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They could go around and around like this with Flora pointing out that she only had Jack's words to go by and Jack only offering more of the same as evidence, but clearly that wasn't getting them anywhere. At least, nowhere Flora wanted to be.
Nearly gulping at the sudden press of him against her palm, the girl was shoved almost face to face with precisely the question Jack had been considering himself; did she have it in her? Softly Flora's eyelashes flutter as her fingertips flinch against his chest; the pulse of the not knowing is so strong she thinks it's that which she hears thudding in her ears instead of her heartbeat.
Suddenly though his lips are against hers, and instead of recalling the feather Flora grasps at his shirt as she moans a high-pitched note of surprise. The fireworks in her mind are all feather-shaped this time; just as bright and hot as they had been before, but each edged with something razor sharp.
Nearly gulping at the sudden press of him against her palm, the girl was shoved almost face to face with precisely the question Jack had been considering himself; did she have it in her? Softly Flora's eyelashes flutter as her fingertips flinch against his chest; the pulse of the not knowing is so strong she thinks it's that which she hears thudding in her ears instead of her heartbeat.
Suddenly though his lips are against hers, and instead of recalling the feather Flora grasps at his shirt as she moans a high-pitched note of surprise. The fireworks in her mind are all feather-shaped this time; just as bright and hot as they had been before, but each edged with something razor sharp.
