All of the issues had been settled, and there wasn’t any work left to do, so Liam went home. Annalise, on the other hand, had been anticipating his advent. She wanted to tell him what happened to her day. How the people on the border supported her on her every practice. How she went out with some of the Omega and Luna. Liam had been coming home tired and she couldn’t find time to tell him, but today was different. It was only six on the evening. That must have mean he finished his work early, and has still enough energy to listen to what she had to say.

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