[ You realize those PhD candidates thought we were having an affair. Why didn't we?
They didn't, at the time, because he wasn't interested. It was an interesting sort of surprise all it's own that Alana had thought he was having an affair at that exact time. A sign of her astute powers of observation that she was able to notice his preoccupation at all, and a sign of not only her misguided faith in him but her absolutely nonthreatening status exemplified by the fact that she attributed it to an affair of all things.
Well, the past was the past, and until he found that particular inspiration again so was the Chesapeake Ripper. Revisiting a methodology once did not mean a revival of the movement in its entirety. Now he had a different project, namely blending in with Will Graham's surroundings and manipulating the other man's perception of the world to fit his own. Perhaps, in that case, an affair with Alana Bloom might be to his advantage.
She came on to him after all, or he could claim it without being too much of a liar.
Seducing her had been too easy, almost to the point of being boring, but taking her on his kitchen counter that first time had enough thrill in it that his body responded as the human body does, enough to make her think he cared. It's different though now, in his bedroom as she strips off her skirt to show that the stockings don't go quite all the way up. It seems almost too desperate for him, but he eyes her thighs none the less, lingering for effect as he loosens his tie. ]
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They didn't, at the time, because he wasn't interested. It was an interesting sort of surprise all it's own that Alana had thought he was having an affair at that exact time. A sign of her astute powers of observation that she was able to notice his preoccupation at all, and a sign of not only her misguided faith in him but her absolutely nonthreatening status exemplified by the fact that she attributed it to an affair of all things.
Well, the past was the past, and until he found that particular inspiration again so was the Chesapeake Ripper. Revisiting a methodology once did not mean a revival of the movement in its entirety. Now he had a different project, namely blending in with Will Graham's surroundings and manipulating the other man's perception of the world to fit his own. Perhaps, in that case, an affair with Alana Bloom might be to his advantage.
She came on to him after all, or he could claim it without being too much of a liar.
Seducing her had been too easy, almost to the point of being boring, but taking her on his kitchen counter that first time had enough thrill in it that his body responded as the human body does, enough to make her think he cared. It's different though now, in his bedroom as she strips off her skirt to show that the stockings don't go quite all the way up. It seems almost too desperate for him, but he eyes her thighs none the less, lingering for effect as he loosens his tie. ]
Doctor Bloom, are you trying to seduce me?