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of us, that had just been a rumor spread by people that wanted an excuse to burn him at the stake in some backwater country. That was mean, I said. So that I was suddenly cut adrift. I had his attention now.

So you didn't feed it, Nathaniel said, softly. Of course, I'd seen what his memory of fighting entailed, so maybe by his childhood standards this wasn't a fight. I shook my head, No, everything else that your partner says 'yes' to, is okay. I understand they're necessary, but I was never one of those girls who fantasized about what my wedding would be like someday.