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Creative Writing: The Cold War

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He wanted to see her tomorrow so much so that he had to choke the words down: Nothing, I’m not doing anything. He was doing something. He couldn’t forget… what was he doing? Work. Four seconds and a zipper to forget, another four seconds and pulling it up with a usually-satisfying hum to remember. Jack was still quiet, more distracted by what he could possibly say than thinking any more about the fact he was helping her get dressed and not the other way around. From the looks of it, it was a task she could have done herself, even. He was still there for show only, her toy now that he’d fucked up for the last time and repented for everything that had come before. Or had, at least, tried to repent. She wanted him to stay these next few moments so he had. She wanted him to help her with a zipper she could do herself so he had. Maybe he’d always been her toy, and it had taken him this long to realise it. …show more content…

He was always a glutton for punishment, but he just knew he shouldn’t try anything, that it would turn on him and even if she accepted his advance and kissed him back they’d end up doing something even more unthinkable: exposing their affair. Leaving her now was better. Keeping her waiting for him was better. He might have been her toy, but he was one that bared its teeth and

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