Leave It to Me
“I sized him up before I’d clocked fifteen minutes in his office. He needed to wheel and deal in human vanities, needed to do favors so he would be owed, needed to break down doors for friends so he’d be admired and to rescue waifs like me so he’d be adored. I figure a guy who makes himself that indispensable must collect in imaginative ways. He didn’t look it, but he could turn out to be more dangerous than Frankie.At least Ham didn’t come on direct, forthright, as Frankie had, which was just a...s well. I was off men for the while, smelling smoke, seeing flames, when I thought of sex. I was attracted to Ham. I don’t deny it. It had to do with the game he played. Ham’s game was devotion. Devotion tending to the melodramatic.He sat me on a chair under a framed The Father of His Country, Parts I, II, III poster triptych while he networked for me on the phone. “Hi, Simone, what’s up? Still desperate for a house sitter?… Does that mean what I think it means?… I think it means Padraic’s out of the picture, et cetera.MoreLess
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