taste of her lingers on his lip, phantom touches engraved into his flash — white knuckle grip on the plushie he build her to distract his mind. she kissed him back, heated warmth and fervor then ran like cinderella at midnight. avoidance's anastasia's tactic of choice, swears on his own grave to not abandon her - time and space given until he had enough. nicholas wants to change, she is enough to make him try ⸺ therapist on speed dial, daily appointments and he stayed away from all temptation, no one warming his bed and no coke. waits and waits until brown eyes see her svelte silhouette and golden hair, hand reaches out and tugs her to him. softly but enough force until she bumps into his chest, quickly moves while she's disorientated so stratton is stuck in the alcove with him for however long needed ⸻ until they talk. she's not a hostage. " you've been avoiding me, haven't you ? " stares down with dark browns, fingers tugging champagne strands away so she cannot hide.
𖥻 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝖺𝖼𝖼𝖾𝗉𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗋𝖾𝗉𝗅𝗂𝖾𝗌 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆‚ @camelcts.
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