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Despite feeling like he was going to die from heat exhaustion, Ellory felt the trip was a remarkable success. He’d catalogued every section of the cathedral, annotated his research into an outline he and Delia could easily reference for the article, and took photographs to include in the publication. And equally importantly, he and Sean had crossed over a threshold from which they could not return, falling into an easy familiarity that seemed to have been waiting to spring up between them. The touches and the affection were given freely and more often, when before Ellory could hardly look Sean in the face, perhaps not wanting to readily admit the boyish handsomeness of the man for fear it would overrule his own stubborn irritation with him. It was hard for Ellory to acknowledge that Sean
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