Exhibit Alexandra by Natasha Bell

Author:Natasha Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

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“You really think Fran offered herself up like that?” he says, amused. He’s been asking about our life, like it gets him hard to think about the sweet, gentle husband I’ve lost. I’m tired of fighting him, though. Answering his questions is easier than the alternative.

“Well?”

I shrug. Why not? I saw the way women looked at Marc.

“Okay, fine,” he says. I wonder if he’s jealous. The husband I sit here picturing is attractive and sexy and desirable, while the man before me has to lock a woman in a room to get her to talk to him.

“Maybe she did,” he muses. “Maybe Nicola threw herself on him too, maybe there was a queue down the street. But what makes you so sure he pushed them away? The man loses you for what looks like forever and you still want him to remain pure and true?”

“What do you want?” I say, too exhausted to scream. “For me to imagine them fucking on our kitchen floor? Someone moving in, looking after our kids, taking my place?”

As I say it I realize that is what he wants. Exactly what he wants. For me to picture my family without me. He looks at me as if he knows me, as if he sees what’s going on in my head.

He laughs and turns toward the door. “Time’s running out, Alexandra. Your time is running out.”

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