Yuri didn't want to go to work. His fever and intense kidney pain had returned, and after so many absences from work he had become (wrong) accustomed to the lack of commitment to schedules. But he couldn't go on like this, slipping away from his responsibilities and justifying them by saying he wasn't feeling well. She was also feeling so”so the night before and that didn't stop her from having sex on the couch. Falling in love did not mean forgetting the mottos that he had championed all his life, and one of them was: "if you are sick for one thing, you are sick for the other." It was an excellent yardstick when making decisions. But this morning in question, she didn't get out of bed just because at eight she had to meet with Caleb, with whom she had already decided to reconcile before even fighting over "what they had to do": she did it in part because Marc had turned to him again. put the watch down and, knowing how important it was to him, he would feel naked if he didn't
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That doesn't say much in your favor. You lied to me.“I'm not talking about that. You had to feel the pull. You had to notice how I melted for you even there. My heart was going to jump out of my chest. It's impossible that you didn't notice. It was all he could hear; my erratic heartbeat It was totally genuine... And it has stayed that way until I saw you again.“I may have thought of hurting you, but I never put it into practice, and you can't deny that there was something of me for you from the beginning.She dug her fingers into his jacket and pressed her forehead against his shoulder. He was crying and it was so unbearable that his eyes were stinging too."You shouldn't have allowed someone else to tell me." You told me about your father, your brother... You told me about yourself. W”why not Campbell's?"Because I would never be ready to talk about how my mother died." It is not a problem of trust towards you, nor is it my de
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