"Okay, I won't leave. How could I bear to go?" Leaving him alone with a raging fever was something Dorothy just could not bring herself to do.

Only after she promised to stay could Everett finally close his eyes, his consciousness fading again. Yet, in those last moments of awareness, he grasped her hand tightly, refusing to let go for a long time.

Dorothy knew he was living in a constant state of unease.

She had not given him a definite departure date nor played her part convincingly enough to make him truly believe she was here to stay.

Fortunately, there were only a few days left. Soon, his ordeal would be over.

It took Everett five days in Swevia Country to start feeling better.

Quincy said it was a mix of worry and old wounds that had flared up.

“But he was always fine back home.” “When you're tense, you can keep going on sheer willpower. Maybe once he got to Swevia Country, without the need to keep going, the illness caught up with him." It was only when Dorothy heard this that she realized how much Kenneth was on Everett's mind.

a constant thorn

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answered a phone call, she would look up to see him leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette. If she went out at night, he would be waiting in

Kenneth snatching

those four years without Dorothy had

ward, a somewhat recovered Everett

mind that his work took up their time together. In fact, she found him most attractive when he was

would often sneak pictures of him to keep in

one long meeting, the

couch, she drifted into a light sleep

lifted into the air that she sleepily opened her

over?"

and turn in my sleep. The bed's so close to your desk. Wouldn't it be awkward if I accidentally got on camera?" Those

did not want

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