Chapter 5820 A Cock To Die For(Taboo Fuck):>Ep12
- Julien and Betsy didn't see much of each other that night. He played the dutiful patriarch to Eddy's family while she gravitated to a younger crowd who had cornered off an area for their own music. Her grandfather caught glimpses now and then of her dancing, flirting, laughing, always within a crowd of other attractive, fresh-faced youngsters, often showing each other things on their phones.
- Betsy had been introduced to Tommaso and Guiditta; they were in their nineties and frail, their skin paper-thin over painful looking bones. Tommaso had clasped hands with Julien and his iron grip held all the while they talked. Guiditta had pinched Betsy's cheek and rasped whispers about Olivia. As they exited the elderly couple's reception rooms, her grandfather explained, "She's gettin' you mixed up with your aunt. You know? You do look a lot like Olivia, when she was your age."
- Betsy frowned, she didn't know how to take this comparison; these days, her aunt was heavily obese and stank of cats. In the early hours of the morning, the party had died down a touch. Families had departed for their beds and the music was playing lower and slower, allowing for less raucous discussions and gentle canoodling. Julien had dragged a table and chair over to a wall along with a jug of wine. He leaned back against the wall, drinking, smoking, watching. Betsy walked across the courtyard, weaving between the trestle-tables laden with half-eaten food and discarded drinks.