"There's nothing there. It was our wolves, and that's it. We both came back to our senses after."
The words came out so fast, stacked so tightly on top of each other, that Corvine didn't even need to analyze them. Speed like that only happened when a person was outrunning something.
He looked at Seraphine's pink cheeks and said nothing for a moment. Just reached across her desk and picked up a blank A4 sheet and a pencil.
"Hmmm." The sound came out low and thoughtful, the kind that wasn't really agreement or disagreement, just acknowledgment that he had heard her and had formed his own opinion about what she said.
He started drawing.
"You know what, Sera." His eyes stayed on the paper, pencil moving in easy strokes. "The lies you keep telling? They work exactly like a hole."
She looked up from her screen.
