Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare

Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare

Author:Celine Saintclare
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838958190
Publisher: Corvus


Freya’s hair is damp, and she opens the door with a cigarette in hand. The sun-loungers are set up. Freddy is barbecuing lamb skewers, beef burgers, halloumi and corn cobs doused in butter and wrapped up in tinfoil. He forks the cooked meat onto a platter and takes it inside to Freya who’s gone to chop up bread and make a salad, then comes back outside and flicks through a copy of the New Yorker, drinking canned beer. The sun is about to set.

I like their life, Freya and Freddy’s. I like their apartment and the way they operate, not squashed up under each other’s armpits but comfortably orbiting each other. And when they do collide, Freya presses her cheek to Freddy’s and he puts his hand absentmindedly through the belt loop on her jeans, they have a quick kiss and then they move on.

‘They’re swingers, it’s obvious,’ says Emily, lighting her cigarette.

‘Shh,’ Sara hushes her, ‘she’ll be back in a minute.’

‘Oh, let her hear. Why do you think they always want us up here sunbathing?’

‘Maybe they’re just nice,’ says Yomawu, though I can see the cogs turning.

Kiki unties the string on her bikini top, dusting a little fluff off her breastbone. ‘I like this roof,’ she says evenly. ‘If hipster Ken and Barbie want to see some titty, I say let them have it.’

‘It’s taking advantage,’ says Yomawu.

‘Well, who’s really taking advantage of who?’ I ask.

They turn and blink at me.



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