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blush had spread
right up to her cheeks and settled there. She stepped back a little into the darkness.
She heard a sound like the turning of pages and looked back at the towering walls
of books, wondering if another customer had ventured in while she was distracted.
The shelves seemed empty, lit with a greenish glow from the low hanging lights.
    Outside it would be almost dark. She stared towards the green door with a certain
longing. Perhaps she should have stayed out there in the twilight where she felt
safe.
    ‘Well.’ Holly turned back towards the woman. The expanse of her cleavage, the shocking,
boyish cut of her hair, the face completely devoid of makeup, fingernails bitten
right back. She was so unlike Holly’s own mother or any of her friends’ mothers.
She was like an older version of those women that her friends would mock. Girls sitting
in an ugly gaggle at the back of the uni bar, all intellect, no style. Holly squared
her shoulders and took a deep breath.
    The woman handed her a flier. Holly took it and read the words printed in large bold
type. LEARN THE ART OF SEDUCTION FROM THE MASTERS OF LITERATURE: SEX BOOK CLUB .
    ‘You are the first person that Rodney has brought into the coven,’ the woman said,
grinning. It was a genuine smile.
    LEARN THE ART OF SEDUCTION .
    ‘Mind you,’ the woman said, looking Holly up and down, ‘doesn’t look like you need
any help in the art of seduction.’
    Holly thought of Jack. Her breath caught suddenly in her throat as if her neck was
being squeezed by invisible hands. She was choking; her eyes watered from the pain
of it. She felt dizzy and clutched the counter, bunching the flier in her fists.
There were tears. She could feel them. She thought suddenly about her mascara, how
it would run in ugly streaks. The thought was enough to pull her back. She felt the
hands on her throat relax. She took a gulping breath.
    ‘Oh no,’ Holly said. ‘It’s a mistake. I can’t…’ Her nose was running and she wiped
the mucus away with the back of her hand.
    The woman reached under the counter and thumped a bottle down in front of her. She
poured a nip into a glass and pushed it into Holly’s hand. She noticed the ring on
the girl’s finger, spun the silver band around, peering at the words. True love waits .
    ‘Seriously?’
    Holly sniffed and nodded.
    ‘Huh. How’s that going for you then?’
    Holly held the glass to her lips, breathed out. Drank it down in one burning gulp.
    ‘Abstinence is that good, eh?’ the woman said and filled her glass up. ‘I like Rodney,
but he is something of a stray-cat collector.’
    Holly had never thought of herself as a stray cat. The scotch had settled her a little.
She tipped the second nip into her mouth and grimaced. She could feel the alcohol
warming her throat and settling her stomach. She breathed easier.
    ‘So, it seems from your reaction there is someone you would rather like to seduce,’
the woman said. Holly thought about protesting. Instead she held out her glass and
the woman raised an eyebrow, but held the bottle out and poured another nip.
    ‘I can’t,’ Holly said, sipping more gingerly this time.
    ‘For some crazy reason you’ve made a pledge of abstinence?’
    Holly nodded.
    ‘And you are struggling to keep it?’
    Another nod.
    ‘I…It’s…’
    ‘Well, people join Sex Club for a lot of reasons. If you can’t be doing it you might
as well get your frustrations out of the way by reading about it,’ the woman said,
pouring some scotch for herself and tipping it back in one quick movement. ‘I assume
you didn’t promise not even to think about it?’
    Holly sipped and inclined her head. ‘No. I suppose I didn’t promise that.’ The scotch
was rougher than the kind they had at home. It burned a track down her throat but
still managed to warm her nicely. The woman put out her hand and Holly took it a
little awkwardly. She was unused to shaking the hand of a woman, but the thick short
fingers were