PASHAI should’ve walked away before I ever kissed her.I didn’t.I should’ve walked away before we set the painting on fire.I didn’t.I should’ve walked away before I fucked her, or during, or after, or at any point in the moments that have followed.But I didn’t. I can’t bring myself to do it.Even now, as Daphne chews on a French fry and gazes thoughtfully out of the diner window, I find myself lingering, though the hours keep ticking past like someone’s playing tricks on me with the clock hands.“So tell me about that painting,” I say, if only to stop the reckless thoughts from spiraling out of control.Daphne snorts. “You mean the five-million dollar masterpiece we just burned?”“That’s the one I was referring to, yes.”She sighs and stirs her raspberry iced tea for a moment. “The original sketch was mine. Of me, I mean. I was his model, his muse, his grande belle. He’d just started laying down the first layers when…”“When they started fucking around.”Daphne casts a panicked g
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