Killing Kate by Alex Lake

Author:Alex Lake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-08-30T19:00:00+00:00

‘I want to get carried away,’ she said, and led him towards the stairs.

Afterwards they lay in her bed, side by side, silent. She and Phil had bought the bed together and only she and he, assuming he hadn’t ever had an affair – which she was pretty sure was a fair assumption – had ever had sex in it, a state of affairs which she had once assumed would last forever, but which had now, suddenly, irrevocably, changed.

She was aware of Mike’s warmth, of the heat coming off him after the exertions of the last half an hour or so. He was lying on his back, one arm around her, his eyes closed. Was this what he did after sex? Phil did one of two things: he got out of bed and took the condom to the bathroom or he lay with his head on her chest, one hand resting protectively on her stomach. She had never figured out what made him do one or the other; she’d always meant to ask but she doubted she would get the chance now.

She and Phil had a routine that they went through when they had sex. That wasn’t to say that it was dull, or repetitive, but they knew each other so well, knew what gave each other pleasure, and they tended to focus on those things. It was different with Mike: it was all new. All uncertain. All to come.

It was thrilling.

She was going to discover all these things, make new routines, find new ways of getting and giving pleasure. It was, in so many ways, the perfect metaphor for her life after Phil.

Other people must go through the same thing, she thought, people who were married for twenty years, watched their kids grow up then realized they had nothing left in common and went their separate ways and found other people to share their lives with. They too must go through this exact process of discovery, of getting to know a new partner: what they liked to eat, how they drove, whether they brushed and flossed or only brushed. And what they like to do in bed.

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