THEIR EYES ROLL AT THE EXACT SAME POINT, a pair of synchronized clocks chiming midnight. with her back to him they’ll both miss that harmonized gesture, but so will the almighty — between the drawn curtains and the thick cover of the rainfall, they've got god shuttered all the way out. that sure hasn't stopped him from trying, though. throwing down buckets so as to make an endless number of reflective puddles in the parking lot, like a naughty pubescent boy sticking a mirror under the door. using cheap tricks to peep at something he shouldn't.
it's no use. whatever is going to happen in this motel room will occur in a blind-spot. it's part of why dove's got a lick of warm honey dripping somewhere below her navel: you can do an awful lot of shameful things in the dark. especially one as black as all this.
could do. he's going on about wolves and teeth without seeming to recognize the terribly dispiriting irony that not a single one is fitting down into the exposed tendon she's offering him, posed and all. you and all the rest of them are dogs, fingerpads drum silently on her glass. need to hear a damn command before you know what to do.
dove's eyes get stuck up on the ceiling as the cowboy drawls, tracing the watermarks as a way to pass the time. tongue curls into the side of her mouth. he's been crossing and tying up the line like its his own personal lasso from the minute they met, but the moment she throws him a real rope — a you wanna take care of me so he can get up and show her how; an i barely know you extended, openly, so he can solidify honey, you been knowing me all your life. i'm your daddy — he lets it fall limp in his lap?
"no." dove casts it over her shoulder, light and offhanded. insouciant enough that hopefully even he'll get it. she turns a beat later to follow the discard of her answer, recentering so she's once more full-frontal before him. more of a tits than an ass man, than.
"you shoulda told me that they've been working you so damn hard up at that little ranch of yours you don't know how to play no more, wes."
she puts her mouth around the name like she might really believe it. to press the point, light brows concave at their innermost point, an expression of false condolence. it stays fixed as her head cants from one side the other. a pretty blonde scale.
the rung of a dress strap falls slowly off one shoulder — tipping him in the right direction.
"how bout that rope than, vaquero?"