Queen of the Owls by Barbara Linn Probst

Author:Barbara Linn Probst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2020-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

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She lay next to Ben, listening to the low pfft of his breathing as he slept. The room was dark, only the yellow glow of the night-light in the hall and an oblong of moonlight, slanting from the window onto the hardwood floor. Elizabeth lay on her back, staring at nothing. The quilt was impossibly heavy. She kicked it off.

Memories of Richard’s studio swirled in her mind. Watching him watch her. Herself, inside her body. The pictures of Georgia spread on the table. She’d thought of asking Richard if she could see the photos he had taken, after all, but she didn’t, and he didn’t offer again. She didn’t really want to see them. If she did, she might feel foolish and want to stop.

Lying in the dark bedroom, she relived the morning, pose by pose. An ache rose up in her to be seen, ever more fully.

She propped herself on an elbow and studied the slope of Ben’s shoulder as he lay on his side, the slow rise and fall of his chest. He had touched her many times, yet never with the intimacy she had felt in Richard’s studio. Had she betrayed him? No. There was nothing to betray.

Then she rolled away, pulled up the quilt, and tried to sleep.

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