She began to dress differently for work. Not obviously—nothing Leo would notice. But she chose the soft green sweater instead of the gray one. She wore her hair loose instead of pulled back. She lingered in the lobby at 8:47, because she had learned that Arjun always passed through at 8:49. She read his body like a text: the way his shoulders relaxed when he saw her, the way his pace slowed almost imperceptibly as he approached.
When we watch a character pause in the middle of a crisis to gently tuck a little teeny sex extra quality