The breaking point came on a Friday at the end of the fourth week.Rain streaked the windows in long, silver lines. The house smelled of rosemary from the chicken Richard had roasted earlier, the sharp edge of whiskey, and the wet earth outside. Thunder muttered somewhere far off, low and continuous. My mother had called that afternoon to say the project in Singapore might keep her away longer than planned.“Another month,” she had said, her voice bright and distant through the speaker. “Can you manage?”I had looked across the room at Richard.He was watching me listen. His expression gave nothing away, but his eyes stayed on my face the entire time, steady and dark, the way they had been staying on me more and more often these past weeks. I felt that look like a hand between my legs.“We’ll manage,” I told her.When the call ended, the silence in the house felt different. Heavier. Charged. The kind of silence that waited for someone to break it.I went upstairs and stood in front of
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