Afterward we both started to laugh and couldn’t stop. Our bodies rippled with laughter. He kissed my forehead. He kissed my collar. He let his hand rest on my belly. God, no one is like you, he said, no one is like you, do you know that? When I said that I was greedy, he said, You are, you’re my greedy thing. He kissed me again and again. If I could smell anything for the rest of my life, Eve, he said, it would be you. — The next time I saw him it was like that too.
