Grand Avenue (2002)
“She took her time, pausing at each completed step, taking shallow breaths because they caused her less discomfort, cradling Tony’s shirts against her still sore ribs, looking neither left nor right, only down at her slippered feet. She didn’t want to lose her footing. She couldn’t risk another fall. Wasn’t that what she’d told the doctors during her last visit to the emergency room—that she’d slipped on some ice, taken a tumble down the outside steps?
“You’re sure?” the young intern had asked h...er, his voice low, the first doctor to question her well-rehearsed routine. “You’re sure someone didn’t do this to you?” He’d glanced beyond the curtain to where Tony paced impatiently back and forth, the dull thud of his footsteps echoing down the hall. She knew Tony was listening. Listening and waiting. Waiting for her to make a mistake, to say the wrong thing.
She always did.
The one way in which she’d never disappointed him.
“I slipped on some ice,” she’d insisted, as a knowing frown slid across the doctor’s boyish face, like a shadow.MoreLess
“You’re sure?” the young intern had asked h...er, his voice low, the first doctor to question her well-rehearsed routine. “You’re sure someone didn’t do this to you?” He’d glanced beyond the curtain to where Tony paced impatiently back and forth, the dull thud of his footsteps echoing down the hall. She knew Tony was listening. Listening and waiting. Waiting for her to make a mistake, to say the wrong thing.
She always did.
The one way in which she’d never disappointed him.
“I slipped on some ice,” she’d insisted, as a knowing frown slid across the doctor’s boyish face, like a shadow.MoreLess
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