In the Red by Elena Mauli Shapiro

Author:Elena Mauli Shapiro [Shapiro, Elena Mauli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

When Irina got home, Andrei was waiting. When he saw Irina laden with all the jewelry, he said, “Oh good, good. Beautiful. Very good.” He laughed. “How beautiful you are, Vasilica Andreescu,” he said in a loving voice without a sliver of irony. “Come to me.”

She went to him and he enfolded her in his arms. He kissed her, hard, and she melted immediately. He took off her clothes the way he knew how. There must have been something uncannily delicious in the scent of him, the texture of his skin. There was no way anyone else could touch her like that, make the whole world dissolve away from her like that, leaving only the happiness of their merging. He made love to her right there on the floor of the living room, naked save for all the jewelry. She liked the weight of the pearls at her throat. She could feel the pearls swaying on the bitty hinges of her earrings, lightly resting on her jaw as she turned her head to offer him her neck to kiss. He drank from the center of her and she came until she was dizzy, drained, sated.

After, he guided her to the bedroom. As he tucked her into the plushness of their shared bed, he pulled the rings from her lax fingers, unhooked the pearls from her ears, and unfastened the pearls from her neck, performing in reverse all the gestures that Joseph had when putting these jewels on her. He put the precious things on the nightstand and slipped into the bed to sleep with her awhile. When she awoke, her lover was there next to her, his eyelids tremoring in sleep, but the precious things were gone, gone wherever it was they were supposed to go. She felt like a princess in a fairy tale who, once divested of her jewels, was a princess no longer. She was just a corrupted girl, lax and dreamy in the arms of the man who had undone her.

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