The bridesmaid, p.29
The Bridesmaid, page 29
‘You do still love me, Philip?’
It might be a lie. He no longer knew. ‘Yes,’ he said.
‘You won’t leave me?’
‘I won’t leave you, Senta.’
He crouched on the bed beside her and turned his face away from its reflection in the mirror, its crumpled, frightened, damaged image. She crept across the mattress to him and he took her in his arms. She nestled up close to him and put her lips against his skin and he held her tight. He could hear cars going through the water up there and he heard one stop outside. The things we think of, he thought, the things we remember at terrible times. When he stole the statue he had thought, they wouldn’t send a police car out for something like that.
But they would for this. They would for this.
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