Olivie Blake

Alone With You in the Ether

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  • b9760020956has quoted2 years ago
    You can’t fix me,” she whispered to him, her mouth tracing his neck. Do you understand, do you know what you hold in your hands, do you know how readily it breaks?

    “I don’t see anything to fix,” he said
  • naihas quoted2 years ago
    He was a lover of all things beautiful, all things sensual, though he loved them best as a caretaker, a keeper.
  • naihas quoted2 years ago
    She just found the whole thing very strange, and he’d stuck in her brain a little bit, embedding himself there like a thorn. Like something on the tip of her tongue or hovering just at the edge of her periphery.
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    It was about time for a new paring knife
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    That doesn’t count as one of the six
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    No, it totally is. You gave yourself an impossible problem so you’d never be able to stop thinking about it. It’s brilliant, actually.” She sounded close to impressed.
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    but I didn’t like having clients. Nobody knows what they want, not really. ‘Oh, change it, I don’t like it,’ but then they can never explain what they want me to change. I’ve never liked dealing with other people’s tastes.”
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    ,” he permitted, nodding.

    She was gratified he didn’t say you’ll like it. That was one of her least favorite phrases; it was always unwisely assured. She hated all scenarios preceding the assumption that someone could predict her taste. Either they thought it universal enough that she could be lumped in with masses or they thought (usually incorrectly) that they understood her specific needs, and she wasn’t sure which crime was worse.

    Ultimately, though, she thought the wine was good. She didn’t know the proper words for it, but was relieved that Aldo didn’t offer any. He merely took a sip, glancing with that same degree of discomfort over his shoulder.
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    wine. Interesting.

    “Sounds perfect,” she said.

    “You’re lying,” he noted. “You prefer white?”

    She did.

    “The red is fine,” she said, and his mouth twitched slightly.
  • leonadukovichas quoted9 months ago
    What did you learn today?”

    “That you don’t have very many friends.”

    His smile broadened.

    “And you?” she asked. “What did you learn about me?”

    “That you’re so bored you’ll agree to six meaningless conversations with a stranger,” he said.

    She smiled at him.

    He smiled back at her
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