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I’d give everyone the me they wanted, needed, craved, and in exchange they’d care about me.
that piece of Uranus—” “Science insult. Nice.” “I bet he thinks in Fahrenheit—” “Ooh, sick burn.”
Jack and I are antagonists. Insulin and glucagon. Rey and Kylo Ren. Galileo and the entire Catholic Church, circa 1615.
“Bold of you to assume that the real me is my best hand.” That stupid, crooked half smile is back. “Foolish of you to think it isn’t.”
“Have you considered that maybe you’re already the way I want you to be? That maybe there are no signals because nothing needs to be changed?”
“In my weird fantasies, Elsie…” He shifts me till our curves and angles match up. Perfectly. “In my fantasies, you allow me to keep an eye on you.” I feel his lips at my temple. “And when I really let go, I imagine that you let me take care of you, too.”
“Be gentle with me, Elsie. That’s all I ask.”
“You could be my entire world,” he whispers in my ear before moving to my collarbone. “If you let me.” I stroke his hair. “I think I will.”
“Eyes on me,”
“I want you, Elsie. All the time. I think of you. All. The. Fucking. Time. I’m distracted. I’m shit at work. And my first instinct, the very first time I saw you, was to run away. Because I knew that if we’d start doing this, we would never stop. And that’s exactly how it is. There is no universe in which I’m going to let you go. I want to be with you, on you, every second of every day. I think—I dream of crazy things. I want you to marry me tomorrow so you can go on my health insurance. I want to lock you in my room for a couple of weeks. I want to buy groceries based on what you like. I want
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“I’m here,” Jack says. We’re alone in this hallway, me and him. Just the two of us, in any way that matters. “But take your time, Elsie. I’ll wait for as long as it takes.”
“You are the most magnificent thing that ever happened to me,”

