Bianca makes eggs in the morning.Humming. Cheerful. Hair up, robe on, completely and beautifully oblivious, and she puts a plate in front of Marco and a plate in front of me and sits across from us both and talks about the plans she has for the day, the market, the thing she wants to do with the garden, the dinner she's thinking about making.I eat my eggs.Marco drinks his coffee.His eyes find mine over the rim of his mug once. Just once. Dark and certain and carrying everything from last night in a single look, and I feel it between my thighs immediately, a pulse, a reminder, and I look back at my plate and focus very hard on my eggs."You sleep okay?" Bianca asks me."Eventually," I say. Completely true."The guest bed is terrible," she says, shaking her head at Marco. "I keep saying we need a new mattress.""It's fine," I say. "Really."Marco says nothing. Drinks his coffee. His foot finds mine under the table. Just rests there. Not moving. Just contact.I don't move mine away.
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