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To be honest, he had been expecting her to say something along the lines of ‘yes, you should probably be going’, since that was how this always seemed to work. They had both been fine with that, seeing how it worked for both of them – he would spend time with her, and when it got late, he would leave, and they would arrange to see each other another time, to resume where they had left off. There were times when he wanted to stay longer – times like these, when he had been so completely wrapped up in what he had been doing, enjoying the feeling of her warmth, and the feeling of her hands against his chest, or down his back. This had been the first time she had given him any reason to suggest that she wanted him to stay longer.

She noticed it too, and he watched her put on an act, looking over with her to the clock on the mantle, though she was moving out from underneath him before he could look her in the eyes again. He would sit up, one of his eyebrows quirking upward with intrigue, and when she would finally turn back to him, he had to bite back a smirk – literally placing his lower lip between his teeth, dragging it between the upper and lower set of pearly whites as he canted his head at her.

“Don’t gotta be anywhere ‘till late afternoon, actually…”

He leaned forward, lacing his fingers between his legs, leaning his elbows on his thighs. He hesitated a moment and then finally asked her outright the one question he really wanted to know the answer to. There were a million ways to go around the question, but it all came down to one thing:

“Do you want me to go?”

He could have asked ‘you want me to stay?’, but he figured that this way she wouldn’t think that he’d only be staying because she asked him to. Maybe it didn’t make much of a difference, but he found that he liked to be cautious with Cecilia. He never knew what might set her off, and while he didn’t quite understand the past troubles she had with men in the past, he didn’t want to give her any more reason to think that he would hurt her as well, in any way.