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The woman hitched up her skirts, gripped the goose between her
dimpled knees, and drew its long neck out straight with one hand.
In her other hand she held a cleaver, which she raised—Aumont imagined
sunlight catching on the blade, but the late afternoon was too cloudy for that
—and then swung downward.
Thock.
The goose and its head were separated.
Aumont turned away, sour bile rising in his throat as he fought the urge
to be sick. He pulled his coat tighter around him and stumbled down the
street. He was drunk enough that he was having trouble walking, but
nowhere near as drunk as he aspired to be, and Seven Dials, a hive of vice,
disease, and crime, was the perfect location for a man with such an
ambition. It was a warren, a slum, and for the past fortnight had been
Aumont’s latest place of residence. He had every intention that it would be
his last.
His unsteady gait carried him to the next street, and to a row of gin
shops. He wheeled into the first and bought two bottles of gin, slid them
into the handy panniers of his coat pockets, then swore at the man who
attempted to liberate them as he turned to leave. The owner of the gin shop
chased the man away with a broom, but Aumont remained vigilant as he
continued on to his boarding house. It didn’t take much to make oneself a
target in these narrow, stinking streets, and two full bottles of gin were as
much bait to the denizens of the Dials as a bulging purse would be.
Aumont
was drunk, but he kept his somewhat bleary wits about him all the same.
His boarding house was in Little White Lion Street. It was a hovel, but
Aumont had a private room where he could drink himself into a stupor so as
not to hear his neighbours either fighting or fucking, or both, so what did he
care if he was visited by rats? He threw empty bottles at them when he
caught them scuttling along the filthy skirting boards, and they hadn’t yet
bitten his fingers off while he lay passed out on the bed—though the
bedbugs were doing their best to devour him.
He climbed the dark stairs, warily eyeing a woman coming down them.
She warily eyed him back. When he reached his room, he unlocked the door
to enter and then closed it again behind him. He lit a candle, and the stink of
burning tallow filled the room. Then he sat down heavily on his filthy bed
and opened his first bottle of gin.
An Affair for Aumont by J.A. Rock EPUB & PDFHe thought, as he always did, of France. His deep love of her. His deep
hatred of her. The gin didn’t help him untangle those two things—it never
did—but it got him drunk enough to stop caring that he couldn’t.
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