99 Days by Jessica Galera Andreu

Author:Jessica Galera Andreu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Published: 2019-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Marcos squeezed his eyes as he perceived the flash. It was 11:30 in the morning and he was still in bed, face down, with the sheet covering him up to his waist. When he managed to see something beyond his own dream, he found that I was holding a camera with which I captured his image again, blinding him momentarily.

“What are you doing?” he muttered in a hoarse voice.

“I'll take your pictures. I want many photos, hundreds of photos, thousands of photos, millions of photos.”

He smiled, placing his arm over his eyes to prevent the light from disturbing him.

"I think it's fantastic that you want all those photos," he replied, "but I have my dignity and these are not forms."

I lay beside him and kissed him on the lips, causing him to put his arm away and caress my hair, still wet after my recent shower.

"You look gorgeous just up," I whispered. “You look gorgeous when you go to bed, gorgeous when you sleep, when you get angry, when you laugh. You always are.”

Marcos held me by the waist and stretched me over the bed, placing himself on top of me.

“You're an angel, you know that?”

I smiled as I took a picture of the two of us. I couldn't even see the frame, but it didn't matter how well done it might be.

“Why am I telling you you're handsome?”

“No, I already knew that.” Then he laughed with charming shyness. Bullshit. “You're an angel because you appear in my life right now and I can only think that if you're the beginning of what's to come, that can't be bad.”

I stopped smiling and stroked his face.

“Are you afraid?” I asked in a trembling voice.

He shook his head.

“No to death. I've been sick too long not to have assimilated what's to come. I am afraid of other things; above all, of the suffering of my own, my mother's and my father's, my brother's suffering. But if you are there, with them, if you are able to transmit to them what you transmit to me, I know that they will be fine, because you are magical, Claudia; because you find the words and the way to make everything seem better. And I am much calmer like that. I would love for you to meet them, for you to meet my mother.”

“Mmmmm...” I joked, as if I thought so. “A mother-in-law, huh?”

“Put a mother-in-law in your life, what do you think?”

“The mothers-in-law whose children you are handsome are the worst. They want them only for themselves.”

“No way, my mother's a sun.”

“A sun that still adores its former daughter-in-law, isn't it?”

“Carmen is very clear about Nerea's role in my life. My ex. A friend. That's it.”

I sighed and read in Marcos' eyes his illusion that he knew his mother. And after all, that was something you would do in any normal relationship, wasn't it?

So I nodded, smiling.

“I'd love to meet your parents. Your mother... especially.”

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