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Jo was getting on Helen’s nerves so much. ‘Where are the glasses? Where is the bedroom?’ Girl, where is your common sense. She just needed a drink. A nice glass of whiskey. She zoned back in to Jo’s melodic voice complaining about her drinking habits.
“Drink, drink, drink, that’s all you’re fit for. You make me sick.”
“Others may pray for their daily bread, I pray for…”
“Is that the bedroom?”
“It is. Your health, Jo”
“We’re sharing a bed again I see.”
A small shiver of anticipation ran through Helen’s frail frame, her face heating up in hope for what might be. An night- a whole night -of admiring Jo’s silky smooth skin, the comforting scent of her hair, and if the fates allow, she might get a glimpse of her smooth stomach from underneath her nightclothes.
“Of course, you know I can’t bear to be parted from you.”
Helen’s heart was pounding, would Jo take her off hand comment to heart or as part of the back and forth banter they so often partake in?
“How I long for my own room.”
Helen’s heart plummeted, surely she couldn’t actually mean that. She sniped back, however her heart was not fully in it. Another drink would make her forget. Just one more…