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she knew.
somehow, zaahira knew, and inji felt her soul catch fire at the thought of what khusobek could have said to her about them. about what was — private. special.
and then, there was the sudden crippling fear that this was her moment to learn that khusobek loved another face. that his apprehension was not rooted in his own concerns, but because his heart wandered in the way his eyes did — in the one way she decidedly could not live with.
panic stirs within her and she stutters wildly for a moment, blinking her widened eyes, before she finally answers.

why?