Kohaku flustered her. Actually, not quite—her reaction to his height and good looks flustered her.

At first she was composed, and he talked. "I went after a monkey demon today," he said. Then she tried to be more composed, and when he smiled dimples came with it. In the end, he charmed her out of her composure. She didn't know what to do with her hands. It shouldn't be so hard to look directly at someone. She knew that much.

"But there were actually two monkeys," Kohaku went on.

She watched him in profile, staring at his jaw as her heart thundered.