Nolan:Natalia and I sat in front of the fireplace, neither one of us saying a word. We simply enjoyed one another’s company in silence.And though I didn’t say it, I found myself embracing that silence, enjoying it, knowing well enough that it was not everlasting.“Thank you,” she said quietly, turning toward me. “For the night. I didn’t expect to… enjoy it as much as I did. But I am happy that it happened.”I almost smiled. “You sound surprised.”She tilted her head, the corner of her mouth curving. “Shouldn’t I be? With everything that the two of us seem to go around, it would be hard to think that we can find a moment of peace like this one. I didn’t even think that we would be spending the night here.”“We can always go back if you want to.” I said, though somewhere inside me, I didn’t want her to say yes.“No.” She said, making me smile. “I like it here. Just the two of us, away from all of the world.”Something in the way she said it, the playfulness, the calm, the quiet truth,
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