my delilah
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Following Elijah's obsession with a younger woman, who is stuck in a dysfunctional relationship while being filled by desire to branch out
She watched him with admiration, something confrontational in her gaze. She seemed to be searching beyond the surface with her dark eyes at all times, diving though whatever depth hid behind the gaze of the recipient. She saw beyond what showed on his surface, always looking for something to understand him better.
She was like a drug, soaring through his veins and attacking all systems in his body while removing every ounce of sense from his being. Elijah would relapse on her everyday, if it meant he could as much as dream of being the one she looked at that way. His yearning for her, his Delilah, grew with every day that passed, and became harder and harder to contain.
"My darling Delilah, your love fills me with so much fear, but it leaves me dauntless."
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