Those words were brutal and unnecessary – a childish act of retaliation against a woman who dared to torment him with her stubborn attitude of a believer, who let herself pity him. Satisfied, he watched as her would-be lover chokes on his food, his face red, humiliated and angry. She merely flinched, but it was obvious that she also hated him at that moment.
Any of them have never realized what had really happened at that seafood restaurant. The cruel statement of an overperceptive man was in fact like a cold, sobering shower. What could be merely a semi-casual sex or, more likely, a huge disappointment, got a chance to grow slowly, lazily even. To be cultivated rather than consummated raw and unripe. With all the shame and offence they've been given quite a rare and precious gift – time.