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    Luka’s quick to smile, hogging a stolen pillow under him as he lays down on his bare stomach. “‘Ginseng tea’? What are you talking about?”

    “It’s what you smell like to me,” Marinette murmurs. “You’ve always smelled like ginseng tea.”

    How can he not smell it? How can he not scent that sweet and decadent aroma he himself exudes— the very same one that lulls her into softness? Warmth. Safety. Here within this bedroom, nothing can hurt her. Nothing can make her scared, or terrified, or worried about the future. His bedsheets, his pillows, his mattress, all of it smells like the very ginseng tea she nurses in her little cup, letting the billowing steam glide over the surface as she gently blows it off. Love is a cup of ginseng tea at four in the morning.

    Love is Luka bringing her a cup of ginseng tea at four in the morning.

    “What do I smell like to you?” she asks.

    It takes him a while to respond. She’s nearly done drinking from her cup when he gains courage. “Mine.”

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