Lover by Design
“Admit it. Elise is better in bed than Celeste.”
“They’re the same person.”
“Wrong answer. Elise gets away with things. You should let Celeste get away with more of them.”
“Noted,” I said, and meant it further than the joke allowed.
She laughed and let it go, and for a while the room was just warm and dark and ours, and I let myself have it, which I don’t do, which she is slowly teaching me to do.
Then my phone lit on the nightstand.
Not the operational phone. The other one. The number only four people alive have, three of whom I trust and one of whom I keep close for exactly this reason.