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29. “Don’t touch me.”

I’m engrossed in my reading, nearly losing track of time, when the door bursts open and makes me jump. Christopher shuts it behind him with a thud, but I just turn my eyes back to the book, pretending to focus on it.

Funny, huh… now, I’m the one flipping pages and pretending I don’t care.

He stagg...