Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash

Author:Elle Nash
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2018-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

SELF-DECEIT IS NOT UNDEFILED WISDOM

THINGS CALMED DOWN OVER the next few days. I didn’t ask questions about the fight, and neither of them talked to me about it. It was reminiscent of the fights I remembered my parents having, shouting about his drinking problem and how much money he spent on irresponsible things. Matt and Frankie simply moved on, as if nothing had happened.

The three of us lay together in bed. I woke up slightly as I heard Frankie stir, but I kept my body faced away from them. I was on the edge, facing the wall. Frankie was farthest from me. Matt lay between us.

I heard Frankie whisper, “Daddy, I’m horny.”

He said, “It’s three a.m. I have work in the morning.”

She said, “I might have to watch a movie in the living room or something,” whispering so the baby didn’t wake up. Her whisper cloyed its way into my chest. My heart rate spiked with the thrill of voyeurism, like I was witnessing something I wasn’t supposed to.

The weight of her body left the bed and I heard the soft pads of her feet move to the hallway. The milklight of early morning melted through the blinds in the bedroom. I stroked the new skin of the foxglove tattoo between my thighs, the scar rippling gently like silk.

Matt rolled over to me. His breath was hot and slept in, heavy and milky like the light. He pressed his lips against my neck, pushing harder with his mouth until his lips opened up beneath the weight. I felt the hardness of his front teeth against my skin. He bit a little and said, “L.”

I moved myself up against his body and made a noise like I was sleeping, a soft mm sound.

“I want to see the color of your blood again,” he said in between a whisper and hum.

He said, “I really like you, Lilith.”

His hands crept around my waist, the whole of my backside lying perfectly into the whole of his front side. My back curved against his chest, his stomach, my ass in his crotch, down to the warmth of his thighs against mine. I tried to get us to fit closer and he pulled me in tight. What it feels like to be held close to the ribs.

I mumbled a little. The riled-up beating of my heart went into my lungs and throat and ears, but I kept my eyes closed. I wouldn’t let my voice betray me. When I responded, I wanted him to know I was aware of what he was doing and that I was okay with it, as if this slight betrayal wasn’t anything unusual at all. I whispered back, “I really like you too, Matt.”

His body pressed harder, fitting his knees into the crook of my own.

“No, girl,” he whispered. “I don’t think you understand.”

I turned my head around to look at him. He wasn’t smiling, not even smirking. He wasn’t staring at my third-eye spot. He was staring directly into my eyes.

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