LELIA

    

    She took off her clothes in the dark and, naked, wrapped herself in one of the coarse linen sheets. She heard metal scrape concrete outside and looked out the window.

    Danny and Michelle were getting up to go to bed. Evidently Dodgson was staying awhile.

    She supposed there was something left in the bottle.

    I know you, Robert, she thought.

    He was acting like a child. In fact all she’d done was break up their ridiculous boring little party. Done what was necessary to do in order to have him and have him the way she wanted him. Now.

    She wrapped the sheet around her tightly and opened the door and then stepped out onto the terrace.