Creative Writing: California Beach

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His breath reeked strongly of alcohol as he kissed her. The kiss was sloppy but uncensored, his disarrayed and muddy emotions creeping over the wall that had been erected after the incident. Even in this haze of intoxication, she felt the closeness that he had been starving her of, and relished in it. Ignoring the miasma of old whiskey and his feverish grabs, she appreciated the scarcity of the moment. He had, no doubt, driven them here, to this alluring California beach, to announce his pending affair. His mind hadn’t always been laced with adulterous intentions and riddled with seemingly superficial temptations, he had been a rather wonderful husband once. But they had been shoved together by their parents when they were just at the end of their naïve teenage years. There had been no amour reciprocated from his side. …show more content…

To everyone, her included, she and Quinn were the ideal couple. He had shown her respect and affection as any man should, and she had fallen in love. As she was meant to. So now, when his supposed caresses turned to aggressive captures with his hands, she didn’t recoil. Not a single feeble sound left her raw lips. They were perfect, and she was going to keep it that way. The smoothness of her skin and delicate feminine curves were only currency. The sun hid behind the horizon, ashamed of the acts happening in its light. When the frost began to dance on the car’s window, she admired her work. Quinn lay snoring softly, spent by the night drunken endeavors. Glancing down at her lover’s head in her lap, she traced her fingers over the angular curves of his jaw, bringing them up his cheek and moving his sweat stained dark bangs out of his closed eyes. He didn’t stir despite the cold in her fingers and ice in her touch. He was as oblivious to his wife’s thoughts as she was to

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