This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets

Author:Milena Busquets
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2016-05-24T07:00:00+00:00

—I have to go out for a minute—be right back.

Everyone looks at me with surprise.

—Anything wrong, dear? Are you OK? Carolina asks with a worried expression.

—Yes, I’m fine. I’m just going out to buy cigarettes, I say with a giggle.

—Yeah, Sofía says.

Carolina looks at me from the other side of the table without smiling. She’s the only one of us who has had a long-term relationship with a really wonderful man, and though she’s never expressed it, I know she considers my dating a married man not only a waste of time but also in some way a bit of a betrayal of her too.

Hugo picks up and wiggles a half-full pack of cigarettes at me, which he had put out on the table a little while ago.

—That tobacco’s stale. Seriously, it’s totally unsmokable, I say.

He laughs. —When you told me you fib a lot, I imagined you’d be a little better at it.

—I do what I can.

—Don’t take too long, we’ll be bored without you, he adds.

Sofía accompanies me to the door.

—You don’t really like him that much, huh?

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