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    He cups her face with tender care, traces the pad of a calloused thumb over her soft lips. There is a gentleness to his face new enlightenment provides; he is a sculptor marveling in the grace of his creation. Words burn on her tongue, but she swallows the ashes of her condemnation.

    You are no Creator. You who deny divinity from your own mouth.
     
    Instead she shows him a crafted expression of her own, the marble countenance of a woman unmoved. “I can’t let you do this.”

    His thumb dips low to rest against her fluttering pulse. “And how would you stop me?”

    She meets his gaze squarely, unflinching. “Anyway I had to.”

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