[Please be mine for now, she'd implored him on the beach. Seeing those words again softens him. But after weeks of her withdrawing into quiet distance nearly as often as she draws him close to her — after that dream seemed to make something fragile of them — he craves more reassurance.
After a pause long enough she may believe he's returned to his work:]
Do I still make you happy, Alina?
[Perhaps it's cowardly, asking like this instead of waiting until he gets home. But perhaps she might need the shield of distance that texting provides.]
sorry this is taking a left turn
After a pause long enough she may believe he's returned to his work:]
Do I still make you happy, Alina?
[Perhaps it's cowardly, asking like this instead of waiting until he gets home. But perhaps she might need the shield of distance that texting provides.]