[ she puts the suit away and lets the cupboard hang open as she turns around to take the other one from aleksander. his closeness draws her breath up short, and her heel thunks against the bottom ledge of the cupboard as she slides back towards it instinctively at the proximity. ]
What are you doing? [ her voice is quiet. surely, this is the last thing they should be doing here. he'd sounded so serious about the risks, serious enough that she'd feared he was trying to end things. ]
What does it look like I'm doing, Alina? ( mouth pulling into a smile as he approaches, taking his time.
it's a reckless thing, doing this here. particularly after his earlier warning. but there's something in the way her eyes blow wide, doe-like. it kindles something in him, some long-buried predatory instinct. )
[ and yet, her gaze drops to his lips, expectant. she doesn't want to close the distance. she wants to see him choose it, after he'd put this barrier between them. ]
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aleksander pulls the door shut behind them, locking it. )
We're too alike in many ways.
( and too different in others. he'd wondered, once, what sort of man his father had been. how he and his mother must have met.
advancing on alina slowly: ) But rest assured she was every bit as difficult to me as she ever was with you.
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What are you doing? [ her voice is quiet. surely, this is the last thing they should be doing here. he'd sounded so serious about the risks, serious enough that she'd feared he was trying to end things. ]
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it's a reckless thing, doing this here. particularly after his earlier warning. but there's something in the way her eyes blow wide, doe-like. it kindles something in him, some long-buried predatory instinct. )
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[ and yet, her gaze drops to his lips, expectant. she doesn't want to close the distance. she wants to see him choose it, after he'd put this barrier between them. ]