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right?”
    She held her breath, waiting anxiously for
his answer.
    “I don’t know. If we’re fighting all the
time, maybe that’s a sign.”
    “You can’t mean that you wanna split up.”
    “Course I don’t, but I can’t keep going
through this. I’m sick of being ignored. Why can’t she just appreciate me? Why
can’t I be enough?”
    “You are enough,” she told him as
she took his hand. “You’re more than enough. If Val can’t accept that, then
she’s only hurting herself.”
    He rubbed his shoulder as he asked, “You
got any Advil or something to get some of these aches out?”
    “I got something better than that.” She
cracked her knuckles. “Magic fingers.”
    “What?”
    “Turn around.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “Turn your butt around.” She guided him as
he turned his back to her. “Now take off your shirt.”
    He took it off and laid it on the table. She
placed her hands on his broad shoulders and worked her fingers.
    “Oh.” He moaned. “Jesus, this feels good.”
    “Did Val tell you I was a part-time
masseuse in college?”
    “No.” He rocked with the movement of her
hands. “Man, this feels good.”
    “You’re all tight.” She sat up on her
knees. “See I can feel the tension way down in the muscles.” She sniffed his
head. His hair smelled like Head and Shoulders. “Feels good?”
    “God yes. Whoo . Don’t
stop.”
    She moved her hands down his back. “You
like that?”
    “Yeah. Is there anything you can’t do?”
    “I can’t stop you and Val from fighting. I
wish I could.”
    “I’m anxious about everything these days.
I got this huge marketing campaign I gotta develop for work, but fighting Val
every damn day is making even that hard.”
    “I’m sorry.”
    “I can’t afford to screw this campaign up.
You think Val has even asked me about it?” He scoffed. “Please. She acts like
nothing exists outside of a baby.”
    “I’d love to hear about your work,” she
said as she continued to massage him.
    “I don’t wanna bore you.”
    Bore
me? I could listen to you talk for the next hundred years and not be bored.
    “Sometimes I wish I could just be someone
else for about a year and let go of all the bullshit,” he said.
    “I know what you mean. Seems like
something is happening every time I turn around. Did you know Layla is back in
Wellington?”
    “Yeah, and that’s so sad.” He shook his
head. “She was doing so well.”
    “That’s schizophrenia for you. She can be
normal for a while, and everything seems fine. Then she goes off the deep end
again.”
    He slightly turned his head toward her. She
stopped massaging his back as he asked, “Can I tell you something?”
      “What?”
    “You gotta promise you won’t tell anyone I
said this.”
    She poked his arm. “What?”
    “Promise.”
    “I promise.”
    He faced her. “I always thought of how it
would’ve been if I met you first, you know?”
    Her breasts heaved as she took in another
deep breath. “You have?”
    “I hope this doesn’t make you
uncomfortable.”
    “No.”
    “I’m not trying to come on to you. I just
wanted you to know. You’ve always been so easy to talk to. Lately with Val,
it’s been chaos after chaos. I like coming here because it’s the calm after the
storm.” He looked at her lips. “You listen to me and you think about me. I
don’t know if Val does at all anymore.”
    Her voice caught in her throat. “Sure she
does.”
    “You’ve been a wonderful friend, Corrine.”
He took her hand. “Whenever I’ve needed someone you’ve been there. It’s nice
having some attention again.”
    “May I be honest too?”
    “Sure.”
    He blinked as she scooted closer to him.
    “I’ve thought about it too,” she confessed.
“How it would’ve been if we’d met before you met Val.”
    He looked down and she laid her hand under
his chin, lifting his head.
    “I’ve always dreamed of a man like you. I
admit it makes me mad to think Val doesn’t appreciate you.”
    He