Best Erotic Romance 2013

Author:Kristina Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2012-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

I didn’t return to the butcher’s for several months. I knew I’d blush as red as the meat behind the glass, as red as our word for “stop.”

After weeks of deliberation, I told my husband I was leaving him. “We can’t afford to separate,” he’d said.

“We can’t afford not to,” I’d replied.

I didn’t leave because I’d cheated on him. I’d cheated on him because I was leaving, although I didn’t see that at the time. When the tree had fallen in the forest, I was there. I was the tree. I’d felt the break. I could hide it from my husband but not from myself.

I rented a small studio flat two miles away. When I was settled, I went to the butcher’s on Friday after work, just as I used to before the fall. Will’s grin was as broad as his hands.

“Two Welsh beef and red wine sausages, please,” I said.

“Only two?” With his tongs, he placed two sausages on the filmy wrap on the scale.

“It’s enough for one,” I replied.

He plucked two more sausages from the tray, smiling to himself. “I’ll join you,” he said. Blue eyes twinkling, he looked at me. I smiled back, my cheeks aching with joy. Then he folded the film over the fat fingers of meat, as carefully and tenderly as if he were wrapping up my heart.

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