Emily, there are enemies everywhere. We have to be on our guard, especially for the next couple of weeks._ Theo sighed unhappily. __his is going to be the longest fortnight of my life._ __hat__ saying something,_ I joked, __iven how long you__e lived._ __xactly,_ he said, without smiling.
_ Looking at her, I think I know better what romantic love is.__ she asked, __hat is it?___t is parental love,_ he answered thoughtfully. __anting to protect and keep the other person safe. As well as the love of friendship - esteeming the other person, even desiring each other__ company beyond all others. And it is lust,_ he said, meeting her eyes, and was rewarded with seeing them darken, her breath becoming slightly unsteady, one little word jerking her out of her clinical assessment. He smiled, a predatory, seductive grin. __he physical needing of the other person, the quickened pulse, the sweaty heat._ His hand, which still rested on hers, began slowly moving, his fingers dancing over her skin. __ombining them makes the result greater than its individual parts. Because it produces something else. It creates _ a steadiness. A strength. I can__ explain it well - being only an outside observer - but I only know that out of my friends' relationships, my sister__ marriage is the epitome of grace.
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_ Looking at her, I think I know better what romantic love is.__ she asked, __hat is it?___t is parental love,_ he answered thoughtfully. __anting to protect and keep the other person safe. As well as the love of friendship - esteeming the other person, even desiring each other__ company beyond all others. And it is lust,_ he said, meeting her eyes, and was rewarded with seeing them darken, her breath becoming slightly unsteady, one little word jerking her out of her clinical assessment. He smiled, a predatory, seductive grin. __he physical needing of the other person, the quickened pulse, the sweaty heat._ His hand, which still rested on hers, began slowly moving, his fingers dancing over her skin. __ombining them makes the result greater than its individual parts. Because it produces something else. It creates _ a steadiness. A strength. I can__ explain it well - being only an outside observer - but I only know that out of my friends' relationships, my sister__ marriage is the epitome of grace.
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