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    The way world-famous Fontanian celebrity Navia Caspar acts on camera is nothing like how she acts away from it. As her newly hired bodyguard and long-time confidant, Clorinde would know.

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    07 Aug 2024

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    They don’t say anything to each other. They don’t have to. The clock ticks in the corner and helps Navia calm the rapid pounding in her chest. Clorinde’s fingertips running up and down her arm and the way Navia can close her eyes and listen to her heartbeat is all that she needs. All that they need.

    All she ever wanted was for Clorinde to feel safe. To feel loved and wanted and worth it, like Clorinde had always done for her.

    There is no Navia without Clorinde. No Clorinde without Navia.

    Or, from beginning to end, how Clorinde falls in the bloom of their youth, the way Navia follows suit in the aftermath, and how they continue to intertwine.

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    30 Jun 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    There are worse ways to heal. Ways that don’t involve a beautiful estate in the Fontaine countryside and perfectly aged bottles of wine at the ready and a garden full of fickle herbs to fret over. Ways that don’t involve a surprise guest, one Lisa Minci, tumbling into her life like a tidal wave. Jean wouldn’t have it any other way, really.

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    31 May 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 92

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    “Can you come as my plus one?”

    Clorinde was, understandably, stunned into silence. Navia braced herself for the logical negative.

    It was kind of a no-brainer. She was asking her to willingly go to a hostile environment, to a house full of people that blamed her for Calla’s death. It felt like asking her to don a meat suit and jump into shark-infested waters.

    A no would be expected. It would be normal.

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    Navia’s cousin asks her to pretend to still be dating Clorinde for the sake of their dying grandma, whose dementia makes her forget what happened between them

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    31 Dec 2023

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    The first time Himeko meets Kafka, she waltzes onto the Astral Express with a story on her lips and not even the slightest desire for a drink.

    "I have a story for you, darling."

    The striking stranger walks right up to the bar, leaning against the solid wood countertop with a dangerous smile on her face and exhaustion in her eyes.

    This is not how it's supposed to go.

    or, Himeko's a barista on a train that takes the dead to their final destinations. Kafka somehow manages to come and go as she pleases.

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    21 Dec 2023