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know what I
mean.”
    “ Sex? Is that what you
mean?”
    He smiled boyishly. “Yeah, that’s what I
mean. What do you think about that?”
    I fed him a sour look. “Where is your
mind?”
    “ Tony, please, you never
thought about it?”
    “ About Dominic having sex
with Ursula?”
    “ Yes.”
    “ No.”
    “ How could you not? She
looks just like Lilith.”
    “ First of all, she may
look like Lilith, but Ursula is definitely not Lilith. Secondly, I
happen to know that Dominic and Ursula are not having
sex.”
    “ So, you are not
jealous?”
    “ Of Dominic?”
    “ Yes.”
    “ No.”
    “ He’s jealous of
you.”
    “ What?”
    “ Seriously. He told me so.
He said he thinks about you and Lilith doing it all the
time.”
    “ Ha. I have news for him.
Lilith and I don’t do it all the time.”
    “ No, I mean he thinks about it all the
time.”
    “ Does he?”
    “ Yes, and he’s afraid that
if you like having sex with one witch so much, then you will want
to have sex with two.”
    “ That’s
ridiculous.”
    “ Why, you don’t like
having sex with a witch?”
    I laughed at that, as my mind took me on a
brief but paradisaic tour of necromantic bliss. “Oh, Carlos,” I
said, unable to shake the smile from my face. “If you only
knew.”
    “ So you do like
it.”
    “ Of course.”
    “ And you never thought
about having sex with Ursula?”
    “ Well, maybe, but not
because she’s a witch.”
    “ Why then?”
    I shrugged some. How could I answer that?
Did I even know the answer? Did it matter that Lilith and Ursula
were identical on the outside in every way, save for the tattoo on
Lilith’s butt, or that if I took away Lilith’s hair-trigger temper,
her condescending attitude and confrontational disposition, that I
might find beneath it all someone like Ursula––that I might find
Ursula? Should the same physical attraction I find in Lilith not
feed my desires for Ursula as well? If not by force of magic that I
incline toward one, then I should naturally incline toward the
other. Carlos questioned my thoughts regarding sex with Ursula.
What could I tell him? The truth was that I had thought about
having sex with her, but only while having sex with Lilith. In that
vein, I imagined Ursula nothing like Lilith at all. But for the
passion burning within her, Lilith could not be the incredible
lover she is. Do I suspect that same passion burns within Ursula,
as well? Perhaps, yet I do not see it.
    So sure, I thought about it. I can say that
and know I love Lilith. I only wish sometimes she were more like
Ursula on the inside and less like her on the outside. At least
then I might not wonder.
    “ You know, Carlos,” I
said, after what may have seemed like minutes. “I’m not comfortable
with where this is going. Look, I love Lilith, and I admit that our
relationship is complicated, but that does not mean that I covet
thy neighbor’s wife, or in this case, his fiancée.”
    “ I bet Dominic would love
to hear you say that.”
    “ I’ll say that to him, if
he asks me like a man.”
    “ He won’t do that. He
respects you too much.”
    “ If he respects me, then
why is he worried about me sleeping with Ursula? He knows he can
trust me.”
    “ Maybe it is not you he
mistrusts.”
    “ You mean
Ursula?”
    “ I mean
Lilith.”
    “ What?”
    “ Sure. You know how she’s
always getting Ursula to try new things. She is the shepherd and
Ursula is her lamb.”
    “ No, what you’re saying is
that she is a pimp and Ursula is her bitch.”
    “ Tony.”
    “ Don’t Tony me. You give
Ursula no credit at all for being her own woman. Not to mention you
give me no credit either. Do you think I would sleep with Ursula
behind Spinelli’s back just to––to what? Break her in?”
    “ I don’t think that.
Dominic does.”
    “ Well then set him
straight, why don’t you?”
    “ Okay, I will. I’ll tell
him you think about having sex with Ursula, but that it’s not
Lilith’s idea.”
    “ What?”
    “ I