Alex
There’s something particularly predatory about Davenport today. Oh, sure, I’ve never liked the way he looked at Melody. He doesn’t check her out the way a geezer looks at a pretty girl and thinks “I wouldn’t mind a piece of that.” He looks at her like, “The things I would do to that girl would shame me, my wife, and my priest.” That is to say, with desire, not just lust.
Lust is different from desire. You can get rid of it with a wank and a shower or a wank in the shower. Desire is bone-deep, like yearning. That’s why the devil always asks “what is your deepest desire” when he’s offering you a bargain in stories because your desire for something could lead you to a change of heart or mind that may result in catastrophic consequences in your future. Your desire for money, your desire
