"I didn't know how to stop it without losing the only part of it that mattered," he said.
I looked at him for a long time, then I put my hand against his face, and he went completely still the way Dorian had gone still and closed his eyes. When they opened again they were wet, I moved impulsively and kissed him.
"Twenty years of a plan, and nobody planned for that." Imogen said between laughs and sobs.
Cian looked at me, and I looked at him.
"Saturday," I said. "Whatever Saturday is, you're not an introduction, you're not a piece. You come as yourself."
"Andrei—"
"Comes as a guest," I said. "You come as yourself. Those are different things."
He looked at me for a long time, then he looked past me, at Imogen sitting on the floor.
"You found her," he said, very quietly.
"She found m
