HIS SECRET ADDICTION
"He didn't know what to do with that."
"Neither do I, honestly."
"You did it anyway. That counts."
After lunch we walked. No destination, no particular direction. Through the Village, down toward the river, back up through Chelsea. He put his hand in mine somewhere around Fourteenth Street and neither of us made a thing of it. Just two people walking in the city on a cold November afternoon.
He stopped in front of a bookshop on Twentieth.
"Come on," he said.
Inside was narrow and warm and smelled like old paper. The owner barely looked up. Alex moved through the shelves with the same focused energy he brought to everything, pulling books out, reading back covers, putting them back or tucking
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