The Garden of Earthly Delights (гет)

“No one else would let me do this, Tina,” he reminds her with moving honesty, and for the barest moment he is her Newt—the kind and gentle soul she’d fallen so hopelessly, irrevocably in love with; the man who’d approached her with a game of sorts after a long courtship carried on through heated correspondences. The fiance who’d offered to take her many burdens onto his own shoulders, if only for a little while, and allow her the pleasure of true release.