JANEThis is too sudden.I keep asking myself what pushed me to say it. I hadn’t planned it. I hadn’t rehearsed the words, hadn’t imagined how it would sound coming out of my mouth.I just… said it right to his face.I had to.It needed to be said. Because somewhere along the line, it felt like he had forgotten. And sooner or later, this would have come up anyway.But this silence… It’s starting to scare me.My fingers rise up to my lips as his gaze deepens, darkening in a way I can’t read. Even though, they were not on me, I could feel the intensity of their gaze. Then they shift and so does he.The moment he pushes himself to his feet, he turns his back on me and I stand too, almost immediately.I want to call his name as I stared at his back, moving as he poured himself a small glass of brandy that he gulps down at once I want to call his name, ask him to speak to me, beg him to say something, anything. I fight the urge to touch him.“Where would you go?”Finally, he mumbled.Rel
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