Pablo Picasso the dog painting

Pablo Picasso the dog paintingPablo Picasso the dog vertical paintingUnknown Artist Still Life with Musical Instruments painting
planning to arrive without a word of warning on her doorstep, assuming that she'd be waiting with open arms, an unencumbered, and no doubt a large enough apartment for them both? It was the kind of behaviour one would expect of a spoiled movie actor who expects his desires simply to fall like ripe fruits into his lap . . . in short, she had felt invaded, or potentially invaded. But then she had rebuked herself, pushing such notions back down into the pit where they belonged, because after all Gibreel had paid heavily for his presumption, if presumption it was. A dead lover deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Then there he lay at her feet, unconscious in the snow, taking her breath away with the impossibility of his being there at all, leading her momentarily to wonder if he might not be another in the series of visual aberrations -- she