We Both Paid the Same Stranger to Sublet the Same One-Bedroom, and Neither of Us Would Move Out novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: Friday Off

Dolores took the other three across the landing for pierogi at one o'clock, and shut her door.

Randy's site had lost power for a utility test, which sent every electrician in the building home.

My dentist closed at noon on Fridays to go lose at golf.

So at ten past one, in a quiet apartment with nobody in it, I stood in the bedroom doorway in my green wrap dress.

He stood behind me, and neither of us said a word.

The dresser was off the door.

Sunlight lay across the blue quilt in a long gold stripe.

For the first time since the landing, there was no one on the other side of anything.

"Hi," I said.

"Hi."

"We have until four."

"I know."

"Don't hurry."

His hands came to my shoulders from behind.

"I wasn't going to," he said.

He turned me around by the shoulders and looked at me for a while.

It was an unhurried, open kind of looking.

I had worn the dress because it tied at the waist.

He found the bow at my hip with two fingers and tugged it loose.

The dress fell open.

I stood there in a black bra and the black thigh-highs, because he had liked them, and the light fell on my skin.

He didn't touch me.

"Randy."

"Hang on. I'm remembering."

"You're not allowed to remember. You're allowed to touch."

He smiled, wide and slow, and went down on one knee in front of me.

The thigh-highs had a band of lace at the top, and he took the left one between his teeth.

I held my breath.

He rolled it down my thigh with his teeth, an inch at a time.

His beard dragged against my skin and his breath was hot on the inside of my leg.

His hands didn't move.

They stayed on his own knees, loose and still.

"Oh my God," I whispered.

"Mm?"

"That's evil."

"It's mechanical."

He worked it down to my knee, to my calf, and I stepped out of it with my knees gone to water.

He did the right one the same way.

When the second stocking dropped, I reached out and gripped the doorframe.

He stood up, and still didn't touch me, and went around behind me.

I felt his mouth on my spine at the clasp of my bra.

He took the clasp between his teeth, and his hands stayed at his sides, and his tongue touched the bare skin between my shoulder blades.

The bra gave way.

I caught it against my chest and laughed, and my laugh came out shaky.

"You're doing this on purpose."

"I'm doing this extremely on purpose."

"I'm going to fall down."

"I'll catch you."

He bent and caught the waistband of my underwear in his teeth.

He knelt behind me with his face against the small of my back.

He slid them down my hips and down my thighs with a slow patient pull of his mouth.

I trembled all over.

My bare skin was in the sun, and his mouth was warm.

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