“You have a beautiful home, Mrs. xnx He decided he was just never going to figure this family out. “Don’t think I’d forget it. When his fingers made contact with the hot skin of her small breasts she arched her head back. There were more portraits of unidentifiable people in antiquated dress than the walls could hold, and Charles detected a sour smell, like a coat liberated from the closet after too many years of disuse. Blank-eyed cupids decorated the banisters, and for some reason he found their gaze distracting as he juggled suitcases, so much that he almost walked right into the woman on the landing. “No respect for anything, although that’s nothing new,” said the third. Charles sat on a couch, too frightened to move.
