FIFTY

That night, Mary dreamt about Adonis, in her dream she saw Adonis and herself walking hand in hand in a garden. Although it was not the same garden in his house. He would occasionally bend down and Edison some sweet nonsense in her ears causing her to laugh her stomach out. They looked so in love that Mary started to think it was real. She woke up much later with a huge smile on her face, only to realize it was all just a dream. But she still couldn’t get rid of the big smile that has gotten stuck there and had refused to leave no matter how much she tried.

Mary berated herself for smiling so much, even though she knew it was all a dream, a dream that would never come true. She remembered he had told her before that he did not have a heart, and that he was only going to have sex with her. The thought about having sex with Adonis, lying naked side by side with him on the bed, with those strong hands of his all over her body made her body react immediately. She bit her lower lip tryin