Murder is the Pay-Off
“The sound of his voice, the half-sardonic twist of his wide mouth when he smiled, the sudden subrisive humor that lighted his gray eyes without apparent reason a hundred times a day—all of it added up to something that set up jet pin points of flame inside her far more exciting than anything else she’d ever known. And infinitely more exciting now she was back home after her own trial fling at marriage, with Janey a barrier between them, than he’d ever been when she was engaged to him, and could... have had him simply by being a little less willful and impatient.
I was a fool, she thought. No. I wasn’t. This is a lot more fun. There were things I had to learn.
As she looked at him again, pushing his plate away and getting a cigarette out of his pocket, squinting as he took the candle from the middle of the table to light it, Connie smiled to herself.
Maybe it’s just the old Oedipus complex, after all. I could get it psyched out of me and save a lot of trouble.MoreLess
I was a fool, she thought. No. I wasn’t. This is a lot more fun. There were things I had to learn.
As she looked at him again, pushing his plate away and getting a cigarette out of his pocket, squinting as he took the candle from the middle of the table to light it, Connie smiled to herself.
Maybe it’s just the old Oedipus complex, after all. I could get it psyched out of me and save a lot of trouble.MoreLess
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