You deserve all of this, and five times more, he always told her.
He liked to arrange things according to convention, and lives. And her attachment to him irked him.
She looked back at him in silence, with eyes that always grew round and large when she listened to him intently. Her arms were clasped around her knees, drawing them close to her chest, hugging them, as she sat across from him.
She never told him how much like a child she felt when they talked in the aftermath of other draining emotions.
Her eyes were steady in the light of the shabby room as she took in all he had to say.
Not saying much, caught up in the desperation of storing every snatched moment for remembrance, she was at her most vulnerable.
I will leave now, he said, in his man-child voice. She blinked.
It was time to go back to waiting for him to call.
Again.
He liked to arrange things according to convention, and lives. And her attachment to him irked him.
She looked back at him in silence, with eyes that always grew round and large when she listened to him intently. Her arms were clasped around her knees, drawing them close to her chest, hugging them, as she sat across from him.
She never told him how much like a child she felt when they talked in the aftermath of other draining emotions.
Her eyes were steady in the light of the shabby room as she took in all he had to say.
Not saying much, caught up in the desperation of storing every snatched moment for remembrance, she was at her most vulnerable.
I will leave now, he said, in his man-child voice. She blinked.
It was time to go back to waiting for him to call.
Again.
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