required to get what I want.
I said: I need to think about it.
She said: there’s no time. The wedding is Saturday.
I knew this.
I knew there was no time. That was the pressure she was using. It was not quite leverage, because the situation was real and the need was real. The reality of the need did not stop it from being used as pressure.
Thomas came home at six.
He already knew.
Kelsey had called him on the way.
He came in wearing the look he
