like leaves and sun and sweat.
Faye sighed. One drink, and then she’d send him on his way. “Beer or soda?”
“You keep beer in your refrigerator?”
“It’s perfectly legal,” she said. “I’m over twenty-one.”
He flashed his lethal grin. “You look about sixteen. But that’s not what I meant. I pegged you as the designer water and herbal tea type.”
At least he hadn’t told her she looked twelve. “Do you want the beer or not?”
“Yes, please, teacher.”
She tugged open the avocado green refrigerator—a mistake left over from the seventies, like disco or silk shirts for men—and pulled out a long-necked bottle. He thanked her and tipped it back. She tried not to stare at his throat as he swallowed. There was an angry pink sunburn above the collar of his T-shirt. When he stretched his neck, she could see a line of pale, smooth skin below. Her own mouth dried.
Oh, dear. Oh, no.
She hugged her left arm across her chest, holding it like a barrier between them. “Why don’t you like your sister-in-law?”
“Future sister-in-law.” He set the bottle down on the counter. “And I like Tess fine. We’re a lot alike in some ways.”
She tried to hear what he was not saying. “Pushy? Stubborn? Obnoxious?”
Aleksy laughed, a warm, rich, surprised sound. “She’s not as bad as me. Just…independent.”
“Not too independent to get married, apparently.”
He picked up his beer. “We’ll see.”
Faye didn’t want to get involved, but this was fascinating stuff. “You don’t think she’ll go through with it?”
“I think she’ll do it. I just hope they can make a success of it. Marriage is a tough proposition.”
“What made you such a pessimist?”
He lowered the bottle from his lips. “Experience.”
Faye could understand that. She took another beer out of the fridge. Her own mother was currently vacationing in Florida with husband number four. Her father—her mother’s second husband—was a self-absorbed academic who had always preferred the company of his books to the demands of a wife and child.
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