A waning desire is still a desire. Maybe it isn’t as harmful at the outset. Perhaps even innocently you dare imagine its worst impact. And it was bearable. Because alone, it can be contained.
Tag: fire
Now or Never
There was something about the way she looked at him when she was about to leave that should have alerted him but he didn’t want to read meaning into anything at that point.
She’d made it clear earlier that she was upset when she called. He had acknowledged her feelings and told her they would talk about it the next day after he dealt with the sensitive work “thing” that presently occupied his mind. She’d hung up.