“/**/ 20. I didn’t ask him in. I knew him well enough not to trust him. I knew myself well enough. Even after all we’d been through, there was that magnetism, invisible lines that bound us even as we stood awkwardly on that doorstep, an energy that had made that Austrian night so magical. Close my eyes and I could feel that hardness of his body against mine. His strength, a strength that could crush. His passion, his tenderness. So no, I didn’t ask him in. We went to Café... Crème, a little patisserie and coffee shop a couple of streets away from my apartment. Neutral territory. I had Lapsang Souchong; he had double espresso. We sat at a little round table on the street under a striped canopy, and around us people rushed by, a woman with a pram, a black cab, a kid on a moped with an enormous box strapped on the back.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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