"You must lead the way,” he directed with a self-satisfied smile, hand gesturing for her to do so, as though he didn’t know the location of the cabin she shared with her sister, didn’t know it was directly across from her brother’s own—and on the opposite end of the ship’s more genteel quarters from his own. An inconvenience, to be sure, though one that had allowed him a great deal of leeway without risking upset to Miss Zabini on the voyage thus far.
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