10
Lawrence
I’d never had the occasion for teenage embarrassment over being caught snogging a girl by my parents, so the chagrin that flooded through me surprised me. At least my adult self tamped it down quickly. While Reine and I didn’t have a formal verbal arrangement, we did have a bond, and I suspected it went deeper than the mystical Fae/gargoyle thing that had happened to us in Faerie. Right, Fae/gargoyle thing. My mind still hadn’t returned to its previous sharpness, and I swallowed my frustration at my inability to define exactly what had happened between us and what we meant to each other.
Maybe that had nothing to do with my persistent brain fuzziness. I’d never been good with emotions, at least not the positive ones.
As for frustration, I had lots of familiarity with it. I
