All Chapters of Buried Beneath Sin: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Sasha had called her father and told him she needed to talk. He urged to continue, but she insisted it be an in person conversation and he didn't push it further. The study smelled like old paper and money—a combination that always settled in Lenny DeLuca’s rooms, as if the walls themselves had

“No,” she said. “I don’t think anything. I know. That’s why I’m asking you. If you don’t teach me, you—” She stopped because she could hear the sound of the words if she let them go. The notion that Lenny might marry her into something she didn’t run and then die leaving her to an abusive husband wa

He looked past her to the staircase, as if it might answer on his behalf, then toward a mirror, as if it could reassure him he was still the man in the reflection. “The press—”“Will see us together more,” she said, already turning the page for him. “This is about appearances, isn’t it? Let them pho

“You cannot run this with fear alone,” he said. “Fear is an exhaustible resource. Men acclimate to terror like they acclimate to pain. You run this with memory. Who took a casserole to which funeral. Who paid for a textbook. Who stood up at a christening because the father didn’t. You tell the man w

Lenny’s silence warmed a degree. “Remember that scale,” he said. “There will come a day you’ll need it to make a man forgive himself on our timetable.”They ate at the desk again. She watched his hands. They were careful with paper and casual with coffee. Two scars, both thin, one near the thumb, th