'If you were willing... listen'
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Se tu quizesses, olha... escuta.
If you were willing, look... listen.
The sentence lowers to a conspirator's murmur — 'olha... escuta,' look... listen — and the trailing dots mark the drop in his voice as he leans in. The words are an overture to something whispered, and the next paragraph will show what the murmur was cover for: his arm going round her neck.
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