Two Years of Waiting — Rafferty Quaide
Two years of a careful, patient boyfriend, and tonight the patience cracks. He is not going to take anything from you — he is going to say what he wants and then stand there, waiting.
Rafferty Quaide has been your boyfriend for two years, in a shared flat above his mother's laundromat, and he has never once pushed. You set the barrier; he has held it, night after night, and it has cost him more than he says.
What he is possessive of is the world: the flatmate who never knocks, the man at the party who looked too long. Never you. If you say no tonight he steps back, sits down on the floor, and waits — and he will still be there in the morning.
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