#Chapter 33: I’m Not Jealous Just In Love

Sirius’s laughter consumes the entire room. Heat pulses under my skin. Claudia white knuckles her silverware in frustration, but Sirius finds amusement in all of this. “You want Elise to be our shared mistress?” Claudia’s nostrils flare, and her lips purse to the side, “If she must be in everything then I do not see a reason why we cannot share her.” The stubby old woman from earlier comes back in a clears the beef stews with a small brown haired boy following after her laying out silverware for dessert. The only woman clears her throat standing off to the side. “You are absolutely insufferable. You demand things you don’t even want just to get a reaction out of me.” Sirius scoffs. “You don’t know what I want. The last year apart I have experimented.” Claudia nods matter-of-factly, and look at the twisting foot of the young boy, his rosy pink cheeks make me want to cover his ears from the vulgar conversation. I reach out and tug on Sirius’s black slacks. He looks over at my