The Things That Make Me Give In (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Or not arrested, exactly. Warned us. That’s what he did. Though I still remember the metal clinking around my wrists. I think about that metal a lot. I think about it now as I stare at the new sheriff, as coldly as I can. Who is this new sheriff really? Nobody, in fact. He doesn’t wear those mirrored aviator sunglasses that Wade used to do, the ones that made him as impassive as a monolith. He doesn’t have Wade’s granite jaw and gun-metal voice. His voice has a reedy quality underneath it. He whines at me. He tells me to put that ‘cigarette’ out, but there’s just not enough authority behind his wavering tone and his doe eyes. I doubt he’s going to get the handcuffs out. What am I going to masturbate over tonight, with my face pressed into the mattress and my hands linked behind my back? It’s tough going when I can’t use my fingers, but I manage. You’ve got to work with whatever gets thrown at you. ‘You’re in big trouble, Starla,’ he says, and for a moment I do wonder if he’s going to do something.
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