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“Would you like to have your fortune read?”
“Yes.”
“Follow me.”
She led us to a back room with beads hanging from the trim as a curtain. A table with a red tablecloth had two chairs on one side and one on the other.
“Please have a seat.”
We all did.
“Who’s first?”
“Me,” I expressed.
“Are you guys married?”
I laughed. “No.”
“Lovers?”
“He’s actually my much older boss.”
“There’s a what? Fifteen-year age gap between you two?”
I scoffed out a chuckle because she was right.
“So that would make you twenty-eight?”
I nodded, informing Luke of my age for the first time. He grabbed my thigh from under the table and started rubbing my skin with his callused fingers.
“Can I see your palm?”
I hesitated for a moment before I gave it over.
Never expecting how much she would know and how this would blow up in my face.
LUKE
I had a bad feeling about this.
I didn’t want to be fucking around with shit I didn’t understand. Duchess placed her hand on the table, and the fortune teller traced the lines on her palm with her index finger.
“You’re sad,” she spoke, continuing to trace the lines. “You’ve been sad for a very long time. You come from an extremely privileged life. You know where you come from, but you have no idea where you’re going. You don’t cry. You don’t share any emotion. It makes your heart cold. You don’t love, child. You don’t know how to.”
I looked over at Duchess, and she was taking in every word the fortune teller was revealing.
“You hide. You hide behind everything, including your body.” The fortune teller looked up at her with an intense stare. “You’re scared of the world because it’s done nothing but hurt you. You don’t let anyone in… not because you’re scared they’re going to hurt you; it’s because you’re terrified they’re not going to.”
Duchess roughly yanked her hand away and stood, immediately leaving.
“Fuck…” I breathed out. I pulled out my wallet and placed a twenty on the table. “Thanks.”
“The life you lead is only going to get you killed. I’d consider a new road for you.”
We locked eyes.
She didn’t waver. “You may not be scared of dying, but it’s those you leave behind who will suffer the loss of your life. Especially your father.”
