Sugar Plums by Snow Ian

Author:Snow, Ian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

You are not alone. Call me, even if it’s just as friends.

To the bottom, he added his number, and tucked the card into the treats. At her front door, he knocked, but didn’t wait for a response. He left the plate on her doorstep. “I’m sorry,” he murmured again, and walked back to his car.

* * *

By the time Calvin knocked on her door, Camille was all cried out and on her back, staring up at the ceiling. She had embarrassed herself, being so naked in her desires like that. Not just for the sex, but to be used and hopefully thrown away. And he’d seen right through her. Lovely. That wasn’t at all going to make the Easter fundraiser awkward if they bumped into each other.

Instead of smiling, the thought left her so tired.

He knocked, and Camille stood up, feeling stiff and sore from the hard sex. God, it had been good, right up to the end, at least. The two lovers she’d taken since Reggie were okay in bed, but Calvin danced with her like he knew her as well as Reggie had. Moving gingerly, she fetched her robe and walked for the front door, thinking Calvin had forgotten something. But by the time she got there, he was gone, and a plate of cookies and treats remained. She sighed, leaned down, and picked it up. Tucked in among the treats was a business card, facedown and with a note on it. She read it, sniffed, and walked back into the house, wanting to cry again but utterly unable to.

She spent a long time in the shower, shivering despite the brutally hot water, and after, threw on a pair of sweats and a tee shirt. There were no parties to go to, no family dinners, nothing. Not for a lack of her friends and parents and extended relatives trying, but she shut them down. The thought of having to endure their pity like in the earliest months made her skin crawl. And yet she missed them too. Missed a lot of things, but she was no good for any of them. She was the bitter apple that would spoil the bunch. Calvin just got a bite of that.

She collapsed on her couch, pulling the pillow and blanket to her. She should get up and fit the sheet across the cushions, but she was bone weary. So many hours of her life were now spent here, on that couch. Magpie came out of the office and nosed at Camille’s foot before dropping with a weary huff and falling asleep almost immediately.

Camille reached down with her foot and rubbed the sweet old dog. How she missed Gator in that moment, gone months after Reggie. Sometimes she thought about getting a second dog so Magpie had company, but she wasn’t sure if the stress would be bad for the dog or not. Camille tucked the pillow under her head, turned on her TV to a schmaltzy station playing a Christmas movie,

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