Nothing

”Don't go.”
”I have to, I can't let this happen.”
”Let this happen? It's happening, whether you want it or not. Don't play coy with me, I'm not any brand of cheap idiot.”
He sighed, lifted his head from his pillow and looked at her. It wasn't this easy, nothing ever was. It couldn't be as easy as one-two-three love me. He couldn't. She shouldn't, they shouldn't be here, they should not be this close and still so far apart. Nothing ever worked like this, nothing had ever worked out to his fortune this way.