Page 26 of Reclaiming Love

“Sometimes I wish you’d listen to what I say. Instead of railroading me into doing whatever it is that you want.” Normally she would have given in to him by now, but this time her steadfast response, while it surprised him, surprised her even more. Something inside her had shifted, infinitesimally.

“I’ll make it up to you, I promise.” Words she’d heard before, she thought.

“I can’t see you tonight and if you mean what you say, you won’t force me. I’ll see you next week sometime.”

The veins in his neck raised up. “If that’s what you want.”

“It’s what I’m asking.”

By then, she’d be getting ready to go home for Christmas. But he didn’t need to know that.

“Have it your way.”

She watched him walk away, feeling a sense of relief that things in her life were about to get back to normal.

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