“And anyway,” she says, “I’m only fourteen, and more anyway, I already have a–a suitor, if you must know.”<\/p>\n
It would be different if he were threatening her somehow: she’d know how to deal with that. But instinct tells her that fists are not the proper tools for this situation. Proserpina, exasperated, wishes she knew how to counterpunch a grin that makes her back tingle.<\/p>\n
“So which is it,” Elijah says, “you’re too young to pursue, or already caught?”<\/p>\n
“Neither,” she finds herself whispering.<\/p>\n
Her overall impression of kissing is that it is sort of wet, and rather defuses everything.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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