That's just 'cause you don't know me all that well yet.
[There's flirtation there, certainly, in adding the 'yet' to what could otherwise be a fairly straightforward observation. It's true, she doesn't really know him, not now, and perhaps not ever, and maybe that's for the best. She can continue to think he's just a somewhat blunt, somewhat aggressive guy whose true actions, whose true employment, who any number of things about remain a complete mystery.
If he were just the slightest bit more self-aware, he'd recognize that his blunt flirtations have a habit of getting him into trouble. Or maybe it's that he is self-aware, recognizes just how poorly being so frank with someone can go, especially someone he knows to be a married woman, and chooses to ignore it. He always has been fond of taking risks.]
So what do I remind you of?
[If not something wicked, then what? It's another one of those questions that might be just the slightest bit uncomfortable, that might just be pressing things a bit too far. It certainly has the possibility to be incisive, but that could also be the way he's gazing at her, blue eyes bright and wide, really waiting for an answer.
And yes, he has to admit, he's curious as to what she thinks of him, maybe through some odd form of egotism, maybe just because he likes that little laugh she'd given, the one she'd hidden behind her hand, and wants to keep talking to her in the hopes that he'll hear it again.]
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[There's flirtation there, certainly, in adding the 'yet' to what could otherwise be a fairly straightforward observation. It's true, she doesn't really know him, not now, and perhaps not ever, and maybe that's for the best. She can continue to think he's just a somewhat blunt, somewhat aggressive guy whose true actions, whose true employment, who any number of things about remain a complete mystery.
If he were just the slightest bit more self-aware, he'd recognize that his blunt flirtations have a habit of getting him into trouble. Or maybe it's that he is self-aware, recognizes just how poorly being so frank with someone can go, especially someone he knows to be a married woman, and chooses to ignore it. He always has been fond of taking risks.]
So what do I remind you of?
[If not something wicked, then what? It's another one of those questions that might be just the slightest bit uncomfortable, that might just be pressing things a bit too far. It certainly has the possibility to be incisive, but that could also be the way he's gazing at her, blue eyes bright and wide, really waiting for an answer.
And yes, he has to admit, he's curious as to what she thinks of him, maybe through some odd form of egotism, maybe just because he likes that little laugh she'd given, the one she'd hidden behind her hand, and wants to keep talking to her in the hopes that he'll hear it again.]