If You Kept a Record of Sins by Andrea Bajani

Author:Andrea Bajani [Bajani, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2021-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Then you took me to the bar, and I was hoping we’d be rid of him, but there he was, sitting at a small table. It wasn’t the first time—these Sunday encounters that you always pretended were a surprise. You never know, you’d say, but over the years, I did know where we’d be going when we got dressed up on a Sunday morning. You in front of the mirror, staring at yourself, running your hands over your hips, checking the fit of your clothes. At the bar, the two of you drinking red wine, smoking your cigarettes. He spoke quietly but threw open his mouth when he laughed; he’d slip his hand between your legs, pretend it was a joke, tell me, You’re not getting jealous, are you? You, pretending to put off his offensives, Quit it, you’d say. That Sunday, your partner asked me if I liked little girls, and he grinned. You gave him a playful slap. Stop it, I said, practically screaming in his face, but he’d already reached between my legs, was squeezing, hurting me. And the two of you were laughing and kissing, after three glasses of wine, you didn’t want to and kept saying, Leave me alone, and him grabbing your head, your tongues in each other’s mouths.

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