“Huh?”
“To talk, I wanted to talk. Sex vedio “I heard a fly buzz…” she mumbled to herself. She was so hot inside. It’s thinking. “It is for us, too.”
“How bad is it?”
“The outbreak? Exhaustion was a distant memory now. “I’ll be there in a few minutes.”
She hung up before he could protest. “Eva?” she said. “Maybe it’s the stress,” she said, whispering. “Oh!” Parvaneh said. “We’re not finished talking about this.”
“Yes we are,” Evangeline said, slamming the door in his face. She wanted it to rub her skin completely off. “I’m going,” said Evangeline. The fluorescent lights set her teeth on edge. “Maybe.”
Somewhere, a fly buzzed. She’d never turned the burner on. “If it was, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. How long had they been at it? Evangeline purred. “It’ll be okay…”
***
The secretary of defense seemed to be keeping her distance, but the doctor assured her there was nothing to worry about. He was waiting for her, his face grave with concern. She walked past Parvaneh without giving her another look. It felt so hard that she imagined it must be painful for him, a swollen, constantly rigid thing. It’s the damnedest thing: They’ll actually forget that they feel sick.
