The Shape of Desire by Sharon Shinn

Author:Sharon Shinn [Shinn, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781101561621
Google: vqB0uaDapNsC
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

I sleep so late the next day that what wakes me up is the postal carrier dropping mail through my door slot a few minutes before eleven. For a while I just lie in bed, feeling the blank disorientation that usually holds me in thrall any morning I’m not wrenched from sleep by the hateful buzzing of the alarm clock. It takes me a moment to remember what day it is and reconstruct all the little details of the day before. Halloween party, Christina, trick-or-treaters…

Dante.

Smacked by revelation, I come fully awake, though I don’t leap up from bed or even sit up. Was he really here last night? Did I dream his presence? I glance around the portion of the room I can see while still lying flat on my back, but there are no physical reminders…no dropped pieces of clothing, no extra glasses of water on the nightstand, no exotic gifts left where my eyes will see them first thing in the morning. I roll to one side and grope for the phone, but since the Caller ID is on the fritz, I can’t even reassure myself that he called.

Surely he did. I pull the covers to my chin and imagine I can catch his scent in the cotton fibers of the sheet. My body remembers the lovemaking. I stroke my hand down the corrugated slope of my rib cage, the curved saucer of my hip. When I step out of bed, when I examine myself in the mirror, will there be marks on my skin—bruises the size of a thumb on the inside of my wrist, the faint indentation of a bite at the join of my throat and shoulder? Will there be any proof of his visit except my conviction of his existence?

I curl into a tight ball, still clutching the covers beneath my chin. Is there ever any more proof than that? Isn’t my unreasoning faith in him the only reason he exists at all?

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