“I kiss the inside of each knee and up, farther, the roughness of my cheek raising redness on her skin.”
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“Who is she? Who is this girl who would allow me to do this, here, now? And how am I allowed to have her?”
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“When someone is hiding a secret in a house, something changes in the air. Unspoken words, half finished smiles, eggshell steps—they distort reality, they muffle truth.”
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“Forse questo bisogna fare nel tempo che resta. Non disperderlo in tentativi vani, ma concentrarsi e sfrondare, più che mai sfrondare. Accettare serenamente la fine.”
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“She hitches up onto the bed, her fraying denimed legs dangling from crossed knees. “You know I know you like to watch.”
I reach her. Uncross those legs. “I do.”
“So watch.”
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“I’m getting high on the scent of her, when she says, “We’re home.”
If I’d been standing, her words would have brought me to my knees.”
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“How many bedrooms did you say there are?”
“Six.”
“Which one’s ours?”
“Tonight, all of them,” I say, and stop. She crashes into me answer I catch her, pulling her hair gently, leaning to kiss the hollow below her ear. “And the living room.” My hands slides up under her t-shirt. “And the dining room.”
She bites my lower lip. “The pool table.”
“The kitchen,” I say as she rakes her hand through my hair.
“Show me.”
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“Your strong jaw, your perfectly mussed-up hair, the lean but somehow still muscular body, the height—you’re practically Captain America.”
“Except English.”
“Even worse!”
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“There’s so much time, endless time, and I stand here in the centre of it with my dick in my hand, completely clueless.”
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“I wouldn’t be surprised if this were a postcoital smoke, the object of his brief affection tucking himself back into his pants or her shirt in some corridor.”
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