Denver by John Dunning

Author:John Dunning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1980-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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He couldn’t take her to his room; that much was understood. They walked downtown, and he put her in a restaurant booth, in a place near the Post, while he went to Miller’s and cashed his check. Miller kept ten on account and gave him twenty.

They went to the Savoy, a hotel a few blocks away. The room cost five-fifty, and had a window that looked across Broadway and up Seventeenth Street. He threw his coat on the bed and sat in one of the chairs facing her. She looked flushed, whether from the long walk or the embarrassment of being suddenly alone with him he couldn’t tell. In fact, she was embarrassed. She had planned his seduction so many times that now, faced with the time and place, she was afraid to try. In the bathroom she reassured herself, looking at her pretty face in the glass, staring for a long time at her eyes. When she came out, she moved past all three chairs and sat on the edge of the bed. She untied her bonnet and took down the pins that tied her hair, just as she might have done in preparing for bed. Her hair had grown since he had seen it. Gregory Clement couldn’t abide the popular haircuts, so she had let it grow. She wet her lips with her tongue and unbuttoned her dress. “All right,” she said. “I’m here now, if you want me.”

Her own words terrified her. She was so afraid of rejection that it almost paralyzed her. But she saw at once that he wanted her. He stood and began to undress, Like a man robbed of voice, ears, and eyes, with only one form of communication left to him. She didn’t care. Her dress dropped to the floor, her underthings with it, and the instant they came together on the bed she knew she had won. He was hers again.

Then he did a strange thing, and it shattered her confidence and troubled her for the rest of the day. Tom, who had always despised birth control, asked if she had brought her diaphragm.

She blushed and tried to laugh. “Really, dearest, I didn’t come here with this in mind.”

They both knew the lie of that. He reached for his wallet. Her arms wrapped around him and she tried to draw him away. But he found what he was looking for and put it on. “Is that. . . thing . . . standard equipment for your wallet these days?” she said. He didn’t answer. She played with it, teasing, and at the same time not teasing, trying to work it off. He wrestled her arms back. She giggled and told him how silly he was, how she was giving up on birth control, how she wanted to feel him inside her. But he never did let her have it and after a while she gave up and let him put it inside her. Even with the sheath of rubber separating them it was over in a few moments.

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