blomkvist was sure that it was not the old-fashioned kind of love that leads to a shared home, a shared mortgage, christmas trees and children. during the eighties, when they were not bound by other relationships, they had talked of moving in together. he had wanted to, but erika always backed out at the last minute. it wouldn't work, she said, they would risk what they had if they fell in love too. blomkvist had often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. the fact was that they functioned well together, and that they had a connection as addictive as heroin.
sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. but even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.
pages 67-68.
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