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    Mary and Tom are book editors in Bloomsbury, skilled at untangling narratives but utterly clueless when it comes to their own.

    Modern AU.

    Mary closed her eyes and took a breath, trying to ignore the fire that had begun to burn in her chest.
    “So, it’s a compromise for you?” she said, her voice trembling with a brittle, rising anger. “You offer me ‘security,’ and in exchange, I devote my life and every waking hour to your whims and travels?”
    “I never said—”
    “Yet you made it perfectly clear."

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