She'd been about to get angry and throw a punch at the light teasing.
Then she could've laughed it off and spent the time wondering what to have for dinner tonight.
She knew it was a joke, but, unexpectedly, tears slipped out.
What lay within that mischievous joke was the possibility of a future, not the present.
Hearing words like that made her dream.
She knew all too well it was an absurd desire.
But what if, by some chance...
...if she really could stay with him until he grew tired of her sickly body.
***
“You said she hasn't come back since yesterday?”...
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