Forum: Williamsburg
05-16-2026, 08:19 PM
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Views: 1,265
Vivienne almost let him have it.
That was...
Vivienne almost let him have it.
That was the dangerous part.
Not his mouth against her knuckles, though that had been an offense of astonishing precision. Not the faint pressure of his...
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Forum: Williamsburg
05-15-2026, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,265
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Forum: Williamsburg
05-14-2026, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,265
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Forum: Williamsburg
05-13-2026, 05:17 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,265
By the time they reached the bar, Vivienne had...
By the time they reached the bar, Vivienne had acquired an entire day she had not planned to keep.
It had begun with the audacity of stepping out of Green-Wood still holding Roman’s hand. She had...
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Forum: Park Slope
05-12-2026, 07:47 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
Vivienne knew the exact moment Roman stopped...
Vivienne knew the exact moment Roman stopped being content to walk beside her.
It was subtle at first.
A slight alteration in his stride. The briefest disturbance in the rhythm they had fallen...
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Forum: Park Slope
05-11-2026, 02:22 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
Vivienne should have found the phrase...
Vivienne should have found the phrase intolerable.
Profoundly pleased.
It had all the restraint of a man who knew exactly how pleased he was and had made the devastating decision not to conceal...
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Forum: Park Slope
05-10-2026, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
Vivienne felt the smile before she allowed...
Vivienne felt the smile before she allowed herself to look at it directly.
That was the trouble with standing this close to him. Distance made Roman easier to withstand. Distance gave her room to...
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Forum: Park Slope
05-10-2026, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
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Forum: Park Slope
05-09-2026, 08:12 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
Vivienne did not answer him right away.
Not...
Vivienne did not answer him right away.
Not because she was arranging a response.
For once, there was no response to arrange.
There was only the shape of him around her, the steady pressure...
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Forum: Park Slope
05-08-2026, 12:36 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
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Forum: Park Slope
05-07-2026, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
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Forum: Park Slope
05-07-2026, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
Absolutely — changed that one detail so she...
Absolutely — changed that one detail so she brushes the twig away with bare fingers, and kept everything else the same.
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Vivienne hated that the first thing she noticed was the warmth.
...
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Forum: Park Slope
05-06-2026, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,307
The car let Vivienne...
The car let Vivienne (https://i.ibb.co/273Rd4Gh/1778105567307.png) out at the Gothic arch and did not follow her in.
That had been her condition.
Not a request, not quite an order. Merely a...
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Forum: Residential
05-04-2026, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
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Forum: Residential
05-02-2026, 07:34 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
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Forum: Residential
05-02-2026, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne let the last of it settle without...
Vivienne let the last of it settle without reaching to tidy the silence.
There were men who made truth grotesque by needing praise for it. Men who offered a single honest sentence and then waited,...
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Forum: Residential
05-01-2026, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne listened without touching her wine.
...
Vivienne listened without touching her wine.
That was how she knew his answers had interested her.
Usually, when men began explaining themselves, she gave them something to watch instead of her...
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Forum: Residential
04-30-2026, 04:54 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne’s first instinct was irritation.
...
Vivienne’s first instinct was irritation.
Not sharp enough to be anger. Not clean enough to become contempt. Irritation, because he had done something insufferably effective: he had answered...
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Forum: Residential
04-29-2026, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne let the observation stay in the room...
Vivienne let the observation stay in the room longer than it deserved.
Curiosity helps.
More honest than due diligence.
The trouble with Roman was not that he saw too much. Vivienne had been...
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Forum: Residential
04-28-2026, 10:09 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
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Forum: Residential
04-28-2026, 12:00 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Her mother’s name entered the room, and...
Her mother’s name entered the room, and everything in Vivienne stopped arranging itself around irritation.
Only for a second.
Not long enough to be called shock. Not even surprise, once the...
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Forum: Residential
04-27-2026, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne went still for half a second.
Not...
Vivienne went still for half a second.
Not visibly enough to satisfy anyone.
Not even enough to satisfy herself.
The command should have irritated her. In principle, it did. She was...
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Forum: Residential
04-26-2026, 07:39 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
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Forum: Residential
04-26-2026, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne hated, immediately and with perfect...
Vivienne hated, immediately and with perfect clarity, that he had found the nerve.
Not the nerve to arrive unannounced. That was irritating, yes, and profoundly Roman in its lack of apology, but...
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Forum: Residential
04-26-2026, 02:04 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 5,157
Vivienne had spent two days behaving.
Not...
Vivienne had spent two days behaving.
Not well. Not obediently. There was a difference, and she had never cared for people who confused the two.
She had attended the breakfast she was expected...
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