[fic] Love For the Asking - "Soul of My Heart, Spirit of My Soul"

Title: Soul of My Heart, Spirit of My Soul
Fandom: Love For the Asking (Short Story)
Genre: Gen, pre-romance.
Characters: Nadia Minor, Drew Carteret
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,626
Summary: “So is that what this visit is about?” she asked, with a mocking lift of her eyebrow. “Checking in on your investment?” Somehow things had a tendency to turn sarcastic between them. It was easier that way, she’d found. Easier with the emotional distance it created. (Or, a pre-canon fic based on yet another pulp story no one has read since it was initially published, pfft. We’ve got opera, class differences, complicated relationships, and the “walking in on someone” trope, baby! The original story, for reference, also involves class differences and complicated relationships, along with mutual pining and fake marriage. It can be read here (with a written summary/review of it here), but in the event you don’t want to bother with either of those, let it be known that I do provide some background context in the pre-fic notes.)

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( In truth, the shower made for difficult singing if one was trying to do it with anything resembling a formal technique. )