My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Her Own Sheets
I took him home with me on Saturday night, to the apartment on Rutger Street that I had paid for since I was nineteen.
I had not been inside since the ninth of October.
The landlady had left the heat on, and a stack of mail on the table, and a plate of cookies under foil.
It was two rooms on the second floor, with a radiator that knocked and a window on the street, and a bed with a patchwork quilt my grandmother had made.
Valentine stood in the doorway with his coat on.
He looked at the room as if it were a church.
"This is yours," he said.
"Come in," I said. "Shut the door."
"I'm in your house."
"I know."
He came in.
He stood on the rag rug in the middle of the floor and did not touch a thing.
I took off my coat and hung it on the hook, and stood in front of him.
My heart was going.
Ever since the closet I had been telling myself what I wanted, and I had not said it, not even in the bath.
"Take your coat off," I said.
He took it off.
"Hang it up."
He hung it beside mine.
"Take off your shoes."
He sat on the edge of the kitchen chair and unlaced them and set them side by side by the door, very neat.
I looked at the back of his bent head.
I had never given orders to a man in my life before the mill, and I had never known I would want to.
"Come here," I said.
He stood and crossed the floor.
I put my hands on his shirt and began, one by one, to undo the buttons.
"I'll do it," he said.
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