Cold Spring Harbor (2013)
“Gloria Drake supposed it was all very nice, though it would certainly have been nicer if Evan had ever brought his father to the apartment again, but she felt unprepared and ill-equipped for this kind of thing. Most of the time she couldn’t even believe her daughter was old enough to be in love; she still thought of Rachel as a little girl meticulously lining up half a dozen dolls for display on her bedroom floor, or breaking down in tears over matters as small as the denial of an ice-cream cone.
On nights when Gloria stayed up late enough to see Rachel come dreamily home she was always unsettled by the girl’s appearance: clothes crushed and hair awry, eyes dazed and mouth swollen, with the lipstick eaten away. Love was often said to be torment, but Rachel could make it seem like punishment as well.
Another thing: Gloria had come to suspect that Evan wasn’t entirely to be trusted—wasn’t, perhaps, to be trusted at all. There was a little too much of the devil in that handsome face.
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