“He took one step away, then turned back. “A kiss for luck?”
Arabella’s hesitation before complying was, upon reflection, rather indecently brief.”

—  David D. Levine

Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 21, “Over the Wall” (p. 340)

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