[ He is in many respects a remarkably private person for the widely public life he's lived over the years. It's something she normally doesn't mind about him, except for the moments that he decides it's time to withhold information from her that she needs to help him or just to understand, or if he just gets stubborn for the sake of being stubborn.
It does mean that the fact that he's willing to let her persuade him, that he's given her a way and a means to the end she wants to achieve - she knows that's actually a victory, something that he wouldn't give to others. Maybe it's a hard way to get what she wants, maybe it's complicated and messy and has the potential to go poorly, but he still is giving her what she asked in the way that he's capable of. It's not like anything else about them is straightforward, so why should this be?
She still gets what she wants, and it's something she doesn't think he'd give almost anyone else. That's enough, for now, and when he finishes she's circled back around to his front, leans in to kiss him hard and heavy, hands on the side of his face to keep him precisely where she wants him. ] How did it end? [ Pulling away to ask the question, though from the sound of it she's still quite close, hands still on his face and her body's warmth almost against his. ]
but why would you ever not believe it
It does mean that the fact that he's willing to let her persuade him, that he's given her a way and a means to the end she wants to achieve - she knows that's actually a victory, something that he wouldn't give to others. Maybe it's a hard way to get what she wants, maybe it's complicated and messy and has the potential to go poorly, but he still is giving her what she asked in the way that he's capable of. It's not like anything else about them is straightforward, so why should this be?
She still gets what she wants, and it's something she doesn't think he'd give almost anyone else. That's enough, for now, and when he finishes she's circled back around to his front, leans in to kiss him hard and heavy, hands on the side of his face to keep him precisely where she wants him. ] How did it end? [ Pulling away to ask the question, though from the sound of it she's still quite close, hands still on his face and her body's warmth almost against his. ]