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– I know all about your liaison with K’raig,” A’lta goes on the attack abruptly, without introduction.

– What was our relationship? – I ask him, quietly. I pretend I don’t know about the pictures. I pretend I know nothing of the pictures. I suppose he’ll think he’s in control just for the time being, and then he’ll turn up his nose and fall quietly on the nail-board I’d carefully prepared. – If you’re referring to our lawsuit with the building, I assure you it’s not news to the news-watching public for a month.

– I mean your intimate connection. – She curves her mutilated and deformed lips so much from the many pricks that I almost force myself to restrain my squeamishness.

God, who told women that men like kissing two pomaded slugs? Statistically speaking, just the opposite!

– There is no intimate connection between us. – I still keep a businesslike tone, but I allow myself a slight hint of irony. – I’m sorry to disappoint you, but he and I are not about Mexican passions. But I think there was another name in the news…