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    Firelight gilded the sharp planes of Shanks’s face where he sprawled in an armchair, a half-drunk bottle of whiskey in one hand. Itachi stepped into the room, Sharingan spinning red.

    “What do you want?” he drawled.

    “You said you loved me.”

    Shanks drank.

    “Is it true?”

    His gaze snapped to her. “Do you really think I’d lie about something like that?”

    Then he looked away.

    “Why are you wasting your energy on those eyes?”

    “Because I want to understand love.”

    His eyes found hers again, black now, unguarded.

    “I don’t know if I can feel much anymore,” Itachi said. “I have loved before, but not like that.”

    Silence stretched.

    “What are you saying?”

    “I may never feel love, but you’re the only one I trust. Why—why it is enough to make people stay?”

    Shanks crossed the room in two strides. “Do you know what you’re asking me?”

    “No.”

    He cupped her face. “Then understand this: if I let myself have you, I won’t be able to let you go.”

    She touched his wrist.

    And then there was no room left for breath, or thought, or anything at all but Shanks.

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