Page 37 of A Love Most Brutal


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The day after my wedding,I wake to an empty bed and thirty-two texts in the family group chat, most of which are from Willa and Nate asking about my first night asMary Orlov. Those two are worse than the women that my mother hangs out with, nosier and more invasive by double, if I had to give a generously low estimate.

Willa

Did you sleep with him?

Vanessa

Leave her alone

Nate

Right leave her alone

(but did you?)

Willa

It’s a reasonable question, they’re married and Mary is hot! Of course he wants her!

Nate

and maxim needs a baby

Vanessa

they got married YESTERDAY

Nate

and Maxim isn’t getting any younger!

Sean

he is an old fuck

Willa

Babe don’t say that

Nate

not cool, Sean

Vanessa

He’s not even forty, aren’t you like 35???

Sean

I didn’t say he was ugly, I said he was old.

He is handsome, though. Dude’s built like a building.

Leo

Real

Nate