[ it's enough of a peck to catch that, enough to get across the happy anticipation he feels in turn. ]
Don't think of it as a bribe. More like a...[ and he's gesturing, as he leads her back through the apartment to his bedroom ]...benefit. Everyone wins here.
[ his room's been hastily cleaned up, dirty clothes a single heap in the corner rather than wherever he tossed them when he took them off. besides them, there's a rumpled bed--sheets only, it's hot out--and a bedside table with a water-glass bouquet of flowers from the upstairs garden. and that's about it. what's there to put in a room, place like this? ]
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Don't think of it as a bribe. More like a...[ and he's gesturing, as he leads her back through the apartment to his bedroom ]...benefit. Everyone wins here.
[ his room's been hastily cleaned up, dirty clothes a single heap in the corner rather than wherever he tossed them when he took them off. besides them, there's a rumpled bed--sheets only, it's hot out--and a bedside table with a water-glass bouquet of flowers from the upstairs garden. and that's about it. what's there to put in a room, place like this? ]