Switched at the Mafia Auction
And then the present came back in like a tide of boots, the press of bodies, a voice — a voice that had no mercy for the clumsy, for the hopeful, nor for the stubborn.
“You’re not as good as they say,” the man slurred. I felt the words first against my skin, as if they were rain that refused to stop. “Amateur.”
It sounded small and monstrous. It sounded like all their music in the club, the money, the polished teeth of men who buy things for sport had shrunk until the whole world was nothing but that one cold, contemptuous syllable.
I wanted to curl up and make myself small enough to be forgiven. Instead, some older reflex from the part of me that still rehearses teeth with a mirror kicked i
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