Poisoned by His Love novel · Chapter 7 of 24
Chapter 7: Everything Else
He ran the bath himself, at midnight, in a marble tub big enough for four.
I stood in the doorway in his shirt and watched the steam climb.
He tested the water with the inside of his wrist.
I had spent a decade of nights taking care of other people's pain.
Nobody had ever tested the water for me.
I thought about the photograph of the woman in the headscarf, and the hand he had held to his mouth.
I thought about what those same hands had just done to me on a dining table.
I did not know which of them was lying.
"Get in," he said.
"You first."
"I'm not the one who's cold."
"I'm not cold."
"Your hands are shaking."
I looked down.
They were.
He took the shirt from my shoulders, slowly, button by button, and let it fall.
He undressed himself in four fast motions and stepped over the edge of the tub.
Then he held out his hand, palm up.
It was not a question, and I took it.
The water was almost too hot, and it closed over my skin like a held breath.
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