Octavia hoped they'd already forgotten that she'd wanted to go to her own boat. And yet she also wished they'd remembered so that maybe they'd acted accordingly. Because she wasn't going to push Duke away, no matter how hard it seemed to be for her to have anyone touching her that much right now.

(It was doubly horrible because usually it was the only thing that reliably worked.)

And she wasn't going to let Lucifer keep looking like that.

(Still not looking in his eyes.)

"It's fine."

They would never know how much it had taken for her to manage to say that.