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My Mistress

Summary:

“Why was it I married a writer, again?”

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Written for LJ community "writerverse" phase 25 challenge 40 prompt 11 dun

Castle quotes (parts of) “Sonnet 130 (My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun)” by William Shakespeare

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“Coral is far more red than her lips.”

Beckett didn’t look up from her vanity. “My lipstick is pink, Castle.

“If snow be white,” he continued, moving through the bedroom behind her, “then her breasts are dun. If hairs be wires—”

She met his eye in the mirror. “Watch it.”

He switched lines smoothly, “No roses see I in her cheeks.”

Beckett turned, frowning, “Why was it I married a writer, again?”

“And yet,” Castle said, softly, “by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.”

She smiled, and kissed him. “That’s why.”

THE END