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After ould happen in the next few days, after I et Leander back, to save my family fro to do with me Otherwise, maybe, I would have waited for this A few more months Another year See if I was able to heal any further But I couldn’t wait
And the fact of it was that I wanted him
With the back of his hand, he traced the line of ers touched my collarbone His skin arm His breath was hot He had far ain, as I always did, of the last tiers unbuttoning , but I’d taken enough opiates that the wires had been reconnected wrong, my hands too heavy, and--
Watson stopped He watched athered h it until it was over
I suppose I could recite the literal progression of events, but I find that I have some small reserves of modesty We didn’t have protection; we didn’t have sex We did other things Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor--I may, for some time, think about his beautiful arms They are lovely, like those of a statue I once sahen I was a girl, in a museum, somewhere, back when I hadn’t yet cried in ue at dawn
WHEN WE WOKE, WE DRESSED QUICKLY, AS WE HAD THINGS to do
We spent the next day holed up, fine-tuning my plan That is to say, I told Watson the particulars and coached hiue, until he rewrote it all in a fit of pique The two of us had never worked in tandem like this before, not purposely It turned out ere rather good at it
This took us through to lunch I had Peterson bring the USB drive and our disguises and our props At a certain point, Watson deotten how often he ate Iroom service for it and then insisted he answer the door with hisdown the hall
We didn’t talk about kissing, or about getting back into bed We played poker He lost We played euchre, and he lost, and he lost again in gin rummy, and then he beat o
"Do you have the USB drive?" he asked, patting his pockets
"Of course," I said "Do you re?"
"‘As Michel Foucault says in Discipline and Punish--’"
"Excellent" I paused "Try to enjoy this Today It’ll be fun, I think, for you"
Until it wasn’t fun Until he never wanted to look at h the holes in his ht actually pull this one off"