"Miss Corey," he said, smiling. "Bree. What a delicious name." He tucked his cane under his arm so that he could accept the book, setting the money into her hand to replace it.
"I hope that you know how special you are," he said, running his fingers over the cover. He had to choose his words carefully now if they were going to strike true. He was only an empath, not a psychic in the purest sense, only his own experience to tell him how to recognize the hurts in this girl and how to tear them all wide open.
Her mother the whore, and her terrible French, and her treasured little book. Her shame at so simple a thing as revealing the ears on her head, the depth of her humiliation, the clumsy way she knelt on the floor. Her determination to get an education, that most recent peculiar facet of the American dream, a way for the ragged to claw their way out of the mud with dignity.
"It is so easy to find a girl," he said, "who – what is it they like to say? 'You may buy my body, but never my heart'? Whores aplenty, but all of them so insistent on that point. Yet here you are, you precious thing, and look how little you have cost me."
"I hope that you know how special you are," he said, running his fingers over the cover. He had to choose his words carefully now if they were going to strike true. He was only an empath, not a psychic in the purest sense, only his own experience to tell him how to recognize the hurts in this girl and how to tear them all wide open.
Her mother the whore, and her terrible French, and her treasured little book. Her shame at so simple a thing as revealing the ears on her head, the depth of her humiliation, the clumsy way she knelt on the floor. Her determination to get an education, that most recent peculiar facet of the American dream, a way for the ragged to claw their way out of the mud with dignity.
"It is so easy to find a girl," he said, "who – what is it they like to say? 'You may buy my body, but never my heart'? Whores aplenty, but all of them so insistent on that point. Yet here you are, you precious thing, and look how little you have cost me."
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