Lucas slowly averted his gaze, not offering any praise. "Where are you going?""To see a lawyer," Elaine shrugged.Lucas’s expression darkened immediately. “You’re not serious.”She moved past him on the staircase. The silk swept his shin as she went, and his hand came up out of reflex and closed gently around her elbow. She stopped. He let go at once, as if the elbow had burned him."This is not the way to get my attention," he said."That's the trouble with you, isn't it." She turned just enough to look at him. "You think there is a way to get your attention."The words landed somewhere he hadn't been protecting. He blinked, then settled his features."You're not well," he said. "I'm willing to grant you that the news today, whatever it actually is, has upset you. But this — " he gestured at her, at the dress, at the staircase she was standing on — "this is a performance, Elaine. And it's an embar
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