Kieran said his name, but Jude refrained from looking directly at him because he hadn’t yet quite managed to smooth over his creased expression. He didn’t want to argue. He didn’t want to feel hurt about this.
He forced himself to look in his general direction, once he had mustered a better show of unaffected lightness, trying to feign business as usual. “So – did you learn anything else while you were on this?” From the Ministry, the Wizengamot, any other political rumour regarding who had voted how; anything useful he had heard but perhaps not included in the article. “That you can share, I mean.”
He forced himself to look in his general direction, once he had mustered a better show of unaffected lightness, trying to feign business as usual. “So – did you learn anything else while you were on this?” From the Ministry, the Wizengamot, any other political rumour regarding who had voted how; anything useful he had heard but perhaps not included in the article. “That you can share, I mean.”
