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Isabelle stayed quiet during the trip back. Their wheels crunched the
gravel as they pulled up to the Victorian-style bed and breakfast. It was
painted brown with sloping dormers and wooden brackets under the eaves,
and long arched windows faced out like droopy eyes. Clusters of white and
pink impatiens grew in boxes under the sills and along the front walk. The
front door was kept open until the late afternoons when the temperature
peaked in the eighties. In the mornings, light glinted in the foyer, and the
stained glass windows sprawled their color across a frayed English rug.
When they got up to their room, Isabelle studied Walter's movements
as he shifted his tie into a loosened knot and went to the bed where he sat on
its edge. Next to him, a silk bouquet crested a night stand with a dusty
washbasin, its chip turned to the inside of the open cabinet, and an oak
armoire, stained caramel, stood across from the bed. She closed in behind
him, and as her thigh pressed into the mattress's curve, she could feel the
welting under the cotton bedspread. She looked at him. Did he want to have
sex now? She wouldn't. Not this time. Isabelle stood waiting, hands on
hips, staring at the bald circle on his head ready for him to turn around and
coax her. Strip off your dress. Show me your nipples. But she wouldn't do it.
He'd had enough of her, and if he wanted anything more from her, he'd
better bag the attitude and make some commitment to her.
Walter yawned. His fists reached in the air, and then he took a
magazine with him onto the balcony. Where was he going? She followed
him outside, and they sat down on wire mesh chairs, painted tennis white.
Two grackles scattered off the metal railing and rose across the country road
penned between the bed and breakfast and the converging acres of grapevines
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Gibbons, Beverly (Beverly Ann). Terlingua, thesis, December 1995; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278466/m1/67/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .