6/5/2023 0 Comments Samskaras by Melissa LummisWater blasted from five different directions in the glass shower stall. She stuck out her tongue and gave an obscene hand gesture, before twisting the shower handles too hard. Pausing, she turned back around and snapped the slide lock into place. She yanked the ponytail holder out of her hair and threw it without thinking. When he didn’t, she splayed both hands against the door and heaved herself upright. Sagging against the door, she waited for him to knock for several minutes. Why was it so damn hard for him to let her in? She leaned her forehead against the door and cried herself limp. She was through catering to his self-imposed isolation for one day. “Enough!” She stomped by Wolf and into the bathroom, slamming the door. Loti thought a blood vessel popped in her eyeball. “Don’t shut down and turn your self-loathing inside out and onto me.” Swallowing the lump in her throat, she spit out, “Don’t you dare do this to me, again.” The lump slid heavily into her solar plexus. “I am not pitying you.” Her hands curled into fists as she spoke low through her teeth. Loti’s eyes flashed with resentment as she recovered and took a step towards him. He shoved her away and she stumbled backward.
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