Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Elissa Sussman
- Language: English
- Genre: Mothers & Children Fiction
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I’d made a terrible mistake.
Well, two terrible mistakes.
The first was agreeing to the lunch. The second was not insisting that
Harriet and I arrive together. We would have been late, because Harriet was
always late, but it would have been better than being early, which I was
because I was always early.
Cal too, apparently.
He was already seated when the waitress escorted me back. He glanced
up as I approached.
Three mistakes.
The grainy headshot that the trades used whenever he was mentioned
was at least five years old, and now that he was here, eyes locked with
mine, it was clear that photo hardly did him justice.
He stood and seemed to go up and up and up. Had he always been this
tall?
His clothes fit well. He had a five o’clock shadow that had arrived just
in time. His hair was artfully tousled. I imagined him wearing mirrored
sunglasses while driving through Brooklyn in a convertible, causing
everyone to stop and stare.
“Kathleen Rosenberg,” he said.
And then there was his voice. I’d forgotten—worked hard to forget—
just how fucking good it was. How deep and resonant.
God. I felt it in my toes and my fingertips.
“Well, well, well,” I said. “If it isn’t Calvin Tyler Kirby.”
His cheek twitched, but his polite—fake—smile didn’t falter.
He hated being referred to by all three names. Which was exactly the
point.
Cal should consider himself lucky that I wasn’t using his even more
loathed nickname.
In fact, he should consider himself lucky that I showed up here in the
first place. The last time we’d seen each other, he’d called me a “mistake”
and I’d told him to get the fuck out of my life.
He’d obliged.
My feelings about him hadn’t changed, but circumstances had. And I’d
promised Harriet I’d hear him out.
“It’s good to see you,” he lied, holding out a hand.
“Come now,” I said.
Placing my hands on his shoulders, I leaned up and gave him two loud,
obnoxious air kisses. His muscles tensed beneath my palms. His cologne—
like an orange grove—wrapped around me. I ignored how good all of it felt,
let go, and stepped back.
“Shall we?” He gestured toward the table.
We sat.
It was like being in a sauna of awkwardness. I could feel it in my pores.
“It’s been a while,” I said. Understatement of the century.
Cal raised an eyebrow but said nothing. His menu was apparently
fascinating.
I was fairly certain, despite his unruffled exterior, that Cal was doing
exactly what I was doing—which was recalling the last time we’d been in a
room together, exchanging barbs. We’d both said some unkind things.
How long had it been? Ten years? Fifteen?
It didn’t really matter. I could still remember the disgust and
disappointment in his eyes. How he’d turned away, not looking back as he
left me alone to deal with the consequences of our shared actions.
I wondered if he felt bad about it now, or if he still thought I’d deserved
what happened.
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