Chapters tagged girlfriend

by DiveInstructorPlaya

Chapter 1

The message arrived unexpectedly at 9:40 on a Thursday. "Hej, it's Sofia. Magnus is out again. Do you play pool? Come over; I'm bored. The table is lonely." Sofia. Two months. That's how long she'd been in the picture—Magnus's new girlfriend, the one he'd brought back from a wo...

by DiveInstructorPlaya

Chapter 2

We dressed in thirty seconds. Don't ask me how. The blouse went back over her head in one motion, inside out, corrected with a yank. Shorts dragged up her thighs with a hop. The tie she left on the felt. I got my trousers fastened, but my shirt was tucked wrong. Sofia was already...

by DiveInstructorPlaya

Chapter 3

Magnus came back through the terrace door with his hands held out in front of him like a surgeon's—black to the wrists, oil worked into the creases of his knuckles, a smear of it grey across his cheekbone, another over his eyebrow where he'd pushed his hair back with the flat of...

by DiveInstructorPlaya

Chapter 4

The coastal road led back the other way, with the sun shining on the water. Sofia pressed her cheek against the glass and kept her eyes on the side mirror. Whenever I looked up, she was already there, watching me. The two white stains on her blouse were dry and stiff, like a badg...