“The harder I tried to stay away the more I found myself going to her. It was as if she had spun a web and trapped me; when she felt like it she crept out of her lair, sated her lust on me, and then discarded me. Weeks turned into months and still I was seeing her. Her independence and elusiveness almost drove me out of my mind. Her quest to find a purpose in life continued and she made it clear that this was something more than I could supply. Her need for identity, recognition, a status, was t...he source of endless fights between us, but she could no more stay away from me than I could from her.Henry despised her, but that only served to make her more acceptable to me. When she and I decided to move from our respective colleges and find ourselves a small house on the outskirts of Oxford I thought it was going to be the end of my friendship with him.‘You’re insane,’ he yelled at me, standing in the doorway of my room as I packed.‘Maybe,’ I said, taking the Ensor from the wall and grimacing as I remembered the first night I had met Jessica.‘She’s no good, Alexander.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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