Our Tango by Ashley Zakrzewski

Author:Ashley Zakrzewski [Zakrzewski, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

She’s laying on her stomach, her eyes blinking slowly while Marissa runs her hand up and down her back. The moments like these are the ones that slot a space into Marissa’s memories the most. The ones where she feels so much love in her heart that it may be dangerous for her. Ever since she became a mother, it’s like everything she’s ever known has been altered. There’s no just her anymore. She’s always been good at incorporating a we into the equation, especially with David. But Lea is like an extension of herself, and then some.

Lea reaches over with her hands and cups Marissa’s cheeks, leaving her a bit stunned. “I love you, momma,” she whispers in a quiet voice.

Marissa has to hold back tears. “I love you too, baby girl.”

It’s like Lea knows, like she was able to take in the conversation between her and David earlier and understand her mother’s worries. The empathy of the little girl astonishes Marissa. Between the soft caresses she’s giving her cheeks and the way her eyes sparkle from the shine of the night light, Marissa can confidentially say that she has no worries about the state of her daughter’s love for her anymore.

***

Shane comes and goes like a season. He’s there like the biting cold of winter, coming slowly then all at once. But he disappears with the melting of the snow. He was like the warmth of her coffee in the morning, a nice comfort and jolt of energy, but dissipating quickly until there was nothing left.

Marissa knows at the end of March that there’s no way she can love anyone but David Carrigan. It isn’t even worth it to try. Because every time she’s with Shane, she thinks of David. Because yeah, Shane’s nice, but David is nicer. And yeah, Shane brings her flowers, but they are roses which she hates. If it were David, he’d have tulips bundled on her desk in the office every morning.

Yeah, Shane gives it to her good and well, but he doesn’t know about the spot on her neck that drives her wild. He doesn’t know how to hold her hips just right. He doesn’t have hours upon hours of rapport built with her. He doesn’t know the deepest facets of herself, how her face can change minutely but show thousands of emotions and words in an expression.

David knows her through and through. He knows when she creases her eyebrows she is frustrated. He knows that Marissa likes her coffee with two creams and one sugar. He knows about the time when Marissa was fifteen and she measured her waist every single day. And it’s not that he just knows about it, he helped her get through it. Made sure to feed her food every morning and tell her how beautiful she was. How beautiful she is. David knows what Marissa’s like when she’s upset, when she’s stressed, when she’s feeling at the top of the world. He’s seen her through the best and worst parts of her life.

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