A woman should be an illusion.

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else,

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else. I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.