Dominated By Him
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I'm sorry, I thought, which was useless and accurate in equal measure.
She would hate me for it. Probably for a long time.
Good, I told myself. Hatred is safer than love right now. Hatred keeps you moving.
But the jasmine was still in the room, and she was still curled on a sofa in Paris, forty minutes and counting, very still, holding herself together.
And I sat in the dark and watched the monitor and did the only thing left available to me.
I waited.