Kings of Broken Things by Theodore Wheeler

Author:Theodore Wheeler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781503941472
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2017-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Evie acted strange those days. Once Jake got better from the flu, Evie saw herself do plenty of odd things. She was used to lovers who thought they were performers, particularly young men like Jake. While a middle-aged man with middling ambition might be comfortable with what he could and couldn’t do in the sack, a young man never was. Jake aimed for grander feats. Unfavorable body positions. Methods a guy had described to him in a barroom. He never understood that those men were tricking him. Or maybe they were as cruel in the ways they screwed as they were in all other ways. The manner of pinching and poking and tweaking and slapping Jake brought to her rooms. What on earth could he be thinking? And then there was his competitive streak. He wouldn’t let her take control, like she ought to have. She knew how to do things he couldn’t have even dreamt of, if he’d let her. Instead he made sport. He wanted to be on top. He wanted to win. He even said these things to her sometimes in the heat of the moment. “I’m deepest! I’m filling you up!” Evie could deal with his being weird—after all, the sex could be pretty good if he forgot himself long enough to let it happen natural—but she acted peculiar too, she had to admit, and that was the stranger thing. She battled back. She wrestled him under her. Tried to deny him her greater depths. Would come loud and often (sometimes fraudulently) then insist she hadn’t just to tease him. “Eh. I’ve had better.” They were often uncomfortable when finished, somehow not quite spent. They were holding back. Why deny that?

They argued about whether they should go elsewhere or stay in Omaha. And where the money would come from if they left. This was never a problem for Evie before. If the man had no money, no rent, no food for her, then it was clear she should move on. It couldn’t go on like that forever. Evie was bound to change during some year of her life. Fall in love. She was bound to become strange eventually.

She fantasized that Jake wanted to run away with her and, before long, found herself pestering him about it. They could start over in San Francisco. He resisted whenever she brought that up, not understanding why she wanted to leave. “I have a job here. I just started. Why would I want to leave?”

“You’d do interesting things if we left,” Evie insisted. “Pick oranges. Lay on a beach.”

“It’d be awful. The money not so good.”

“Is that so?” she said, a sure sign of trouble. “Then maybe it’s time for me to find work. Get a share of the good money. I know you don’t make enough to pay for my rooms, not on an election worker’s salary.”

She was right, but Jake didn’t care. He chuckled when she brought up money.

“Don’t be stupid,” she said. “If you’re sneaking from Tom and Billy, that’s a bad idea.

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