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"How would you know:" she retorts.”I could have been faking it all this time, and you just wouldn't have notice—ah_"

Aleksandr slides his fingers inside of her, three all at once. Lili falls back with a hiss at the chill of his ring, the sudden surprise of it. The metal of his watch presses cold against her, too. "I know when you come, Lili," he warns. She inhales sharply as his fingers start to move. "Trust me.

“For someone who’s already gotten off multiple times this morning, you’re very belligerent,” he observes.

“I could have been faking it.”

He laughs, amused. “Sure.”

There, I think that’s me. I think I’ll never be free of that. I think that is who I am, at the root of everything, and I both hate it and cannot live without it.

If the pain ends, she will still be here, without them.

“It’s never going to stop unless you feel it,” he whispers. “Whatever it is- I can hurt you, but you need to feel it- it’s pain, Lili. Pain ends.”

- if her sense of independence, freedom, identity can be found only is resisting help, in letting no one take care of her. If the inverse might offer strength too.

That there is an end to pain-it’s an idea, rather than a belief but it’s tied to that night with Aleksandr, the sense of falling headfirst into herself.

(6:35 a.m.) are you at the office?

(6:35 a.m.) Yes, I do occasionally work, sweetheart.

(6:35 a.m.) and here I thought white men got everything handed to them.

(6:36 a.m.) I, too, am disappointed.

“I could be your hobby,” she volunteers, running her hands up his arms.

“That would imply you offer more stress relief than you incur,” Aleksandr counters.