Instead, you told yourself desire can also be quiet.
You told yourself that maybe decisive men only look dangerous to people who have spent their whole lives being uncertain.
You told yourself that wanting someone after a year of restraint did not make you foolish.
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You told yourself many things on the ride up to the eighth floor.
Now he stands a few feet away from you, jacket off, tie loosened, the city lights catching in the silver at his temples.
“Αre you nervous?” he asks.
His voice is gentle, the same voice that once talked you down from tears after a client humiliated you in a conference room full of executives.
