Finding not so platonic love

Why? Why was she was denying herself. Trying to put space between them with her words, as though he would ever think of her as anything other than what she was. His trying to escape him, as through he was something to flee from. That might be the case for others, but not for her, his Zee. he wanted only to give her the world.

She didn’t step away from him this time, and his next step brought her into his arms. He leaned his head into her neck, drinking in the scent of her. He thought he would never breathe in the mixture that made her Zee again. Why had he thought that? She was right here, she had always been right here, hadn’t she?

No. She had been in the arms of another. While his life had fallen apart around him, she had sought comfort in others. “Stop trying to leave me.’ he whispered, soft and fierce into her air. “I want you, and only you. Forever.”

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