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'You look like you enjoyed that,' he said smiling as she finished her meal and discarded her plate into the table. Her more serious tone worried him, he continued sincerely,'What do you expect me to do Lile? My job is all i have, and to jeopardise it would be clearly irresponsible after my many years trying to get here.'

He gave off a pained look, he was evidently torn, and her beautiful green eyes probed him for some sort of inconceivable answer.

He shuffled his chair up so he sat inches from her and took her soft, and comparably tiny hand, with his entwining his fingers with hers and running his lips over her knuckles.

'I want this...us, to work. Please don't make the mistake of thinking i don't, but you really can't expect me to jeopardise everything, i've worked my whole life to achieve, on a 'something might happen' opportunity?.'

He felt a rush of guilt run through his body, maybe that was what she expected, maybe this was his chance to prove himself, and he'd just gone and sabotaged any chance of ...well, her. His eyes now downcast and confused, this felt so surreal.