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I raced after hi, “You can’t! What if it’s Noc?”
Tor stopped at the door, lifted a big hand and pointed a long finger at my peephole
“You have a tiny porthole,” he replied in a low voice, his blue eyes on ing cah it then his head turned toto read it when I heard Phoebe shouting, “Cora! I know you’re in there! Open up! I don’t have all day”
Phoebe!
My heart started racing
She’d called last night Now she was here
I didn’t knohether to be terrified, happy or to brace
My eyes refocused on Tor just as he unlocked the door, pulled it open and when he did, I decided my best option was to brace
Then I saw eous platfor friend standing at the door, one hand raised ready to knock again, one hand holding a depart by the handles, body arrested and head tipped way back with ht of Tor
Oh boy
She blinked then her eyes did a top-to-toe scan They stopped on the way back to the top, arrested on his chest, she blinked again and I had a feeling she also started salivating (I had this feeling because that hat I did when I saw Tor’s chest) then her eyes slid all the way up, they moved over his face then she whispered, “Dude What happened to you? You didn’t have a scar the last ti intoroom and her head jerked my way, her eyes lost their wonder and her face instantly closed down
My heart clenched and I stoppedto her
Really, really, God, really, I hoped I never met that aoot there before her, shifting slightly but the uy but also because it was vaguely threatening and Phoebe didn’t ue threat Her head jerked back as her eyes cut to hio still
“You are clearly an acquaintance of my wife and we are not unaware that others of her acquaintance are unhappy with her, or, the other her What youunkind to her, that is to say, the real her,” Tor declared, Phoebe blinked yet again and I snapped, “Tor!”
He looked to me and asked, “What?”
I didn’t answer and this was because Phoebe whispered a shocked, “Your wife?”
I looked from Phoebe to Tor, pointed to my friend and said, “That’s what”
“What’s what?” Tor returned
“Your wife?” Phoebe repeated