Darkest Fear
“For once I wasn’t afraid when I got out of my car and went to the kitchen door. The mood I was in, I would have taken on any attacker with one paw tied behind my back. In the empty kitchen I grabbed some leftover Chinese food and nuked it, then ate as I walked upstairs. Coco’s light shone under her door, and I heard Charlotte’s soft laugh, so I didn’t knock. In my small bathroom I turned on the hot water, finished the Chinese food, then peeled out of my wet clothes. Then I sat on the shower flo...or, trying not to cry, while the hot water poured on my head and warmed me up.
Why was I so drawn to Rafael? Besides his incredible good looks, patience, kindness, family loyalty, etc. Ugh. Again and again I thought of the portrait he’d done of me, the one he’d never hung up in Ro’s. I’d wanted to ask about it—if he didn’t want it, I did—but also didn’t want to let him know how much it had meant to me. There was someone in the world who saw me that way. I had looked that way to him, at least once.MoreLess
Why was I so drawn to Rafael? Besides his incredible good looks, patience, kindness, family loyalty, etc. Ugh. Again and again I thought of the portrait he’d done of me, the one he’d never hung up in Ro’s. I’d wanted to ask about it—if he didn’t want it, I did—but also didn’t want to let him know how much it had meant to me. There was someone in the world who saw me that way. I had looked that way to him, at least once.MoreLess
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