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Ari sighed as she filed away her paperwork, glad that the day was nearly over. She loved her job, especially when she managed to save innocent people from being punished for something they hadn’t done. But she just hadn’t been able to concentrate since the moment she’d pushed Bjorn away.
The memory kept playing through her head on repeat. Leaving her to wonder whether she should have just let him claim her. There was more than a small part of her that wanted him to, but she wasn’t quite ready to give up her Council seat yet. Maybe she would be when the necromancer problem was solved, that would at least give herself a sense of closure. But then there was her family. Her sister would be happy for her, and her brothers wouldn’t care, but she couldn’t imagine her parents approving of a ma
