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...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
-Robin McKinley
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...there Remained A Strange Formality Between Them,

Robin McKinley
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
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And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. a few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. and every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.
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They'd had fun, for sure. they laughed and enjoyed being together. but if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. something in the way tim looked at her. she remembered her mom's word. "i saw the way he looked at you...he adores you." maybe that was it. tim looked at her on a surface level. he smiled and seemed happy to see her. but when cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. he didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. to the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul.
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He wanted her. he knew where to find her. he waited. it amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. he knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. he was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.
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