Even though they had tried

He aproached her slowly and carefully and tried to caress her as gently as he could, as though otherwise he might have broken her in some way. And even though she was the one making him linger, without ever promising to love him back, even though she wouldn't take a step away from him, but she couldn't ever do more then try, even though she silently desired for him to stay (and that alone held him by her aside) and she couldn't deny she would leave, in that second while she politely refused him without any words, so soflty and gently, as much as he could, he hated her profoundly, for making him feel like it was his fault, and not hers.