All the Girls in Town by Staci Greason

Author:Staci Greason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TouchPoint Press

RED

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ack home in bed, Red tossed and turned, watching the pale moonlight pass across the ceiling until dawn.

Dani was neurotic, but very likeable, genuine, and down to earth. She was in a constant state of overwhelm. It was hard to ascertain whether it was her usual approach to life, or a more recent condition with the two she’d taken into her small apartment.

Getting to know Dani and her family had felt like reconnecting with old friends, or maybe distant, long-lost relatives. Red hadn’t realized how lonely she’d been for company, real company, not just Matt at Sunday brunch, or pretending with Sasha. Connecting with Dani felt honest and real. It wasn’t only because they’d slept with, loved, and been hurt by the same man. They mirrored similarities, easy to laugh and easy to cry, vulnerable and tender-hearted. Sasha was the same.

Good women.

Had Peter thought their proximity would make him a better person? He hadn’t accounted for their darker natures. Awakening a beast of anger. It hadn’t happened yet for Sasha, but it was only a matter of time. She was bright. The babies would multiply her rage.

Taking advantage of their vulnerabilities would be his downfall. It had to be.

Like Dani, Red had revealed her true self with Peter. She had shared her struggles with self-esteem after being molested at age ten by an older male babysitter when her parents were traveling first class to save chimpanzees. Peter had held her in his arms while she’d cried, releasing years of loneliness and shame. What had she hoped to gain by sharing this center, her vulnerable core? Wholeness.

Red finally crawled out of bed and walked into the predawn living room, to the bookshelf where she kept her vinyl stacked and protected, choosing the Pretenders’ latest album with Chrissie on the cover, fist bump, tattoo. Alone.

“We weren’t meant to be alone,” Red told Chrissie’s image. Women were meant to congregate. There was power in numbers. Was she discovering the piece missing from her life in the company of Peter’s exes? Wouldn’t that just be the shit.

Red wasn’t alone anymore. And it felt good. She was playing this role to its end.

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