Moore didn't know what to say. He simply read his lover's question aloud and froze without saying another word. Both of them were not ready to say something to each other, or to hear, so the man simply took the peony to the vase and returned, silently, to the kitchen. He did not know what to tell Polina. He did not know what to do with the girl, who, perhaps, with his emotions and desires, locked in a flower without her consent. The man simply looked at the withering rose and threw it into the trash can so that it would not be seen again. Dorian himself did not like...