WHAT HE ERASED
The faint tension around his mouth that appeared whenever he was waiting for something to be over.
I looked at the inside of his left wrist.
Smooth skin. Already gone.
He'd had it removed. The ink that had been there for years my initials, small enough that you had to be close to read them, something I had once been foolish enough to take as a kind of promise erased. Not recently, either. The skin was too settled, too healed. He'd done it weeks before this conversation.
Maybe longer. He had been planning this, arranging the pieces, and somewhere in that arrangement he had sat in a chair and had the last trace of me taken off his body before he'd bothered to
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