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“I would never cheat on my wife,” Ethan said, indignant. He'd meant it, truly. "She doesn’t want me to leave,” he said, hesitant with how much he should divulge, unsure why airing out his marital troubles came so naturally. Maybe he just wanted to talk to someone who was willing to listen, however disinterested. “She doesn’t want me to touch her either."
Heisenberg said nothing, returning to his task at hand as if Ethan hadn’t spoken.
“It’s not like I haven’t thought about it,” Ethan confessed minutes later, the silence killing him more than any humiliation, “every time she pushes me away, it just…” He took a deep breath, stopping.
“One can only go so long without the touch of another,” Heisenberg concluded, a cigar in his mouth. Ethan would’ve said something about fire and oil not mixing, but he was distracted by what’d been said, agreeing.