She sipped her martini and titled her head, looking at him so directly that he shifted in his chair. “Do you know,” she said, “one of the reasons I never wanted to talk to you after that day is that I just couldn’t believe you would do something like that on purpose, which—” “I didn’t.” “—which made me want desperately to stay with you. Up to that moment, you were … We worked so well. But who is so distanced from the person he says he loves, who cares so little for that person as a person, that he doesn’t see what’s happening right beneath him?” She put down her glass. “I was so in love with
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