*Lupo*
Slowly I release her. It didn't occur to me that kissing her would cause her to remember me or at least something she shared with me.
"I don't know why you ran away," I say, speaking the truth. Or even if she had run away. Although it seems more likely that she did, either from Littlepaw or Wigmore. Neither of them reported her missing, so her disappearance will reflect badly on one of them. But which one?
"But we have kissed before," she says, more as a statement than a question.
"Yes," I reply.
She looks at me, her eyes questioning me. "Is there something between us?"
How do I answer that? Dislike, distrust, pride, maybe hers is between us. "Anything between us would be inappropriate."
"Of course. You're a gentleman; I'm a servant," she says, angling her chin and squaring h
