He didn't have to leave the room or the house to leave her. She'd lived with a man who'd never realized she'd left him after he started beating her, until the day she'd walked out. He'd leave her staying the way he had for days.
But his expression kept those words locked inside, and she leaned her forehead against his. "Then you should listen to me now, dear. You need to go to work. I would keep you here for all the hours of everyday forever, if that was what would make you happiest, would make any of this, now, the minutes easier. You need to go to work."
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Date: 2009-08-29 04:44 pm (UTC)But his expression kept those words locked inside, and she leaned her forehead against his. "Then you should listen to me now, dear. You need to go to work. I would keep you here for all the hours of everyday forever, if that was what would make you happiest, would make any of this, now, the minutes easier. You need to go to work."