Clara
The days after that dinner with Alexander were not intense... They were constant, and that, to me, was more disconcerting than any outburst.
There were no insistent messages, there were no unexpected flowers, there was no pressure disguised as romanticism.
There was a presence.
A "how was your meeting?" in the middle of the afternoon, an article that I knew I would be interested in, a coffee sent to the office, but without a romantic note, only: "So you don't forget to have lunch."
Alexander did not invade, he maintained. And that difference began to feel dangerous.
With Ethan, on the other hand, the dynamic had subtly changed after that conversation.
He did not make exaggerated gestures again, he did not look for long conversations for no reason.
But he was. More punctual at
