Christ, he was trying to make her cry wasn’t he? Nothing about this was comforting. No, no, no, no.... The word kept repeating in her head loudly over his voice and she covered her ears as she half curled up into a ball. Phoenix could still hear everything he said... Automatically she recoiled when she felt the touch of his lips and slipped away fairly easily. She was always good at slipping in... more ways than one but they weren’t ice skating right now. Not literally anyway. “That’s not the same! I couldn’t just up and leave whenever, could I? No!” She was shaking like she was on the verge of spontaneously combusting, “Can’t you be satisfied with what we’ve had in past lives?”