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    It's been weeks since Arthur escaped the O'Driscolls, but he still can't sleep. Not without Charles nearby. Charles is going crazy. He can't bear being in love with his friend. Not when Arthur is in so plainly in love with this Mary woman. The confession could ruin their friendship. Or maybe not...

     

    “You’re leaving?”
    Takes a moment for Charles to look up from fiddling needlessly with Taima’s reins. To face Arthur. And speak. “Yeah.”
    “You can’t.”
    “Arthur.” He says it with a sigh. “You knew I was gonna leave eventually.”
    “But I—” I need you, he almost says. “I thought you was taking me with you.”
    Charles looks at him so fondly. “I can’t—"
    “Was you gonna say goodbye at least?” Arthur knows he sounds more wounded than angry. And he supposes he is.

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    Dr. Ratio is used to being observed. Not pursued. But when a familiar face from the IPC keeps appearing in his lecture halls and an unexpected evening draws them together, logic gives way to something far less predictable.

    It starts with a gala. It ends with a question neither of them were ready to ask.

    (There are also cat cakes. And a rubber duck. But that’s beside the point.)

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    Arthur accepts help from the maid while he's having a bath at the hotel in Strawberry. It basically becomes a well-needed therapy session.

    This does reference Arthur's experience with Sonny in the swamp, so be careful if you're sensitive to that kind of thing! But damn does bro need to talk to someone about it.

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    If Arthur is honest with himself, he's lonely when he cannot feel the heat of another person near him. If he's very honest with himself, his skin is burning for the kind of fond, friendly touch that Charles normally doesn't offer anyone. It's got to be easy for him to give, convenient, and it's—

    Well, now he's plotting how to make himself more appealing, which is pathetic. Arthur licks around his dry mouth and wonders if he's always this way.

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    Hosea Matthews is a terrible man.

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