I Locked My Professor's Office Door, and Left Belonging to Three Men novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: The Armchair

Marcello undid my last button in the bedroom of the brick house with his wife watching from the armchair.

The room was at the top of the stairs, under the slope of the roof.

A lamp with a parchment shade burned on the nightstand, and the quilt on the bed had been pieced by Claudia's grandmother in Ohio.

I had eaten at that house once before this night, and I had never once climbed the stairs.

Nathan and Colin had washed the dishes and gone home.

Nathan had kissed Claudia's cheek at the door, and Colin had hugged her, and she had patted his enormous back twice.

Now Claudia sat in the chair by the window with her feet tucked under her and her glasses hanging on their cord.

She had washed the clay from her hands.

The red thread lay in the open neck of her sweater with nothing on it.

"My rule has two parts," she had said over the pie, with all of us listening.

"You finish. And nobody is in my bed unless I'm in the chair."

Now she was in the chair.

"Go on, Marcello," she said. "She is not made of glass."

His hands shook on my blouse.

"Claudia."

"I know what I'm doing. I decided in the barn, over a pot."

She settled deeper into the cushion.

"Take it off her slowly. She has earned slow."

Marcello slid the blouse down my arms.

I stood in my skirt and my black bra in the lamplight, and I could not look at the chair.

"Hannah," Claudia said. "Look at me, not at him."

I looked.

Her face was calm, and warm, and her eyes were wet and very bright.

"There," she said. "That's better. You are allowed to be seen here."

Something in my chest let go.

Marcello reached behind me and unhooked the bra.

He drew it down my arms and let it fall, and his breath went out of him in a rough sound.

"Oh, she's lovely," Claudia said, softly. "Isn't she, Marcello?"

"Yes."

"Tell her."

"You are lovely," Marcello said, hoarse, and his hands cupped my breasts. "You are the most lovely thing in my house."

"Good," said Claudia. "Now the skirt."

He knelt and unzipped it, and I stepped out of it, and he drew my underwear down my legs.

I stood naked in the middle of the Ferrignos' bedroom with a man on his knees before me and his wife in the chair.

I should have been mortified.

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