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Summary
There’s a muscle in James’ jaw that jumps when he’s annoyed or frustrated or generally hypertensive. She’s seen it a hundred times: when a coworker interrupts their quiet evening with an inane text; when Peter says something that gets under his skin; when Lily’s insufferable colleague, Evan, says something extraordinarily repugnant at a department gathering and James is itching to break his nose but Lily has already told him that he cannot do that. She loves that little twitch of his face, the way his the line of his jaw sharpens when he grinds his teeth and the swift exhale through his nose that tells her that he’s either counting to four like Remus told him he needs to do more often, or he’s thinking of a hundred different ways to relieve his stress, at least ninety-six of which involve her.
He’s made a mistake this evening: He’s told her to play nice.
She’s looking for that muscle in his jaw.
Series
- Part 6 of the guilty as sin-ematic universe