Disturbance Layer
“I designed the agreement to manage behaviour, thinking that if behaviour was controllable, emotion would follow. But I ignored the fact that attraction is not behavioural, it is rooted in memory and physiology, in what I'd call trigger points. A video, a photograph, even a similar smell, can activate them.”
He looked up at me, and his gaze nearly broke my heart. “That means as long as you still have this kind of reactivity towards him, our agreement will always have a gap that cannot be closed. And I will always be living in a state of alert, waiting for the next trigger. That is not life, it is prolonged, low intensity torture.”
“So what do we do?” I moved in front of him, knelt down, and
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