" He’s not letting her get away with that.
Well fine, maybe she’ll just leave then, she has her own apartment, she hardly needs to sleep here, and besides, maybe he’s being nosy.
Maybe he is but she started it, and she can leave any time if she wants to, so long as she comes back.
Fine, but only because he said that last bit. She’s tired of people telling her she’s free to leave, she hates it.
He doesn’t want her to leave at all but there’s a whole thing in the rulebook about letting people have agency. ‘If it’s meant to be’ and all that.
She thinks that’s bullshit, can’t people just hold on?
He agrees. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether