Burning Down the Spouse
“journal of ex-trophy wife Frankie Bennett: Okay, so Maxine was right. Sort of. Earning a paycheck is good for the soul. I do feel productive and useful. She was right when she said idle hands are the devil’s tools and all that encompasses as an idiom, yadda, yadda, yadda. Score one for Maxine. But I’ve come to believe Nikos’s hands are the devil’s instruments, and I wouldn’t mind them being idle on me. Sweet. Jesus.
“You’re beautiful.”
“You’re blind.”
“Sight impaired, thank you.”
... “So it makes perfect sense you’d be in a strip joint where there’s nothing but a visual Utopia of thong-covered asses and naked breasts.”
The man at the bar chuckled. “I see with my other senses.”
Jasmine raised a skeptical eyebrow at this handsome man’s cane and leaned her forearms on the shiny mahogany of the bar top, nodding a thank-you to Bert the bartender when he set a club soda and lime in front of her.MoreLess
“You’re beautiful.”
“You’re blind.”
“Sight impaired, thank you.”
... “So it makes perfect sense you’d be in a strip joint where there’s nothing but a visual Utopia of thong-covered asses and naked breasts.”
The man at the bar chuckled. “I see with my other senses.”
Jasmine raised a skeptical eyebrow at this handsome man’s cane and leaned her forearms on the shiny mahogany of the bar top, nodding a thank-you to Bert the bartender when he set a club soda and lime in front of her.MoreLess
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