Sweetbitter Song

Sweetbitter Song

Author: Rosie Hewlett Listening Length: 17h 47m
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Perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and from the award-winning author of The Witch of Colchis comes a profoundly moving story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle – one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. On...

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Chapter 35

I began visiting Eumaeus regularly.

At first, I told myself it would be a brief distraction, something to keep my mind occupied, to stave off the madness Penelope had unwittingly infected me with. But then one night bled into another then another, spiraling away in a haze of soft midnight kisses and early morning whispers.

I felt guilty for using his love as a distraction, but I buried that guilt deep inside me, in the graveyard of all the other ugly pieces of myself I had learned to live with.

And truthfully, I did care for Eumaeus. He was kind and sweet and allowed me to feel a sense of safety I had never known with a man.