The Head
Gardener

the engine didn't rush them and that's the entire point. devastating restraint, genuinely.

“Nobody writes a pause like this. The silence between them is louder than any kiss.”

Read the whole thing with one hand over my mouth.

Thought I was too jaded for this. I was wrong, loudly.

the tension in this could hold a roof up.

“Slowest burn on the whole app and I would have waited twice as long.”

“This ruined every other thing I tried to read after it. Unfair.”

Tender enough to hurt. I keep rereading the last paragraph like it owes me money.