"No," Julian said, his hand covering hers on the workbench. His thumb brushed against her knuckles, a deliberate, grounding pressure. "I want you to keep it. I realized today that I’m tired of looking at things through glass cases. I’d rather be the person making the marks."
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He placed a small, tarnished locket on her workbench. It was silver, the surface worn nearly smooth by decades of contact. Elena picked it up. Her thumb found the indentation where someone else's thumb had rested for years—a shallow, polished groove in the metal. "No," Julian said, his hand covering hers on the workbench