A Misplaced Kiss on the Autumn Terrace

The disabled veteran blocked me between the bamboo plaques covered with dried chili peppers. The gap in his sleeves was facing the empty trousers of my newlywed husband. "When you wipe the body of a paralyzed man every night, are you imagining my body temperature?" The moment his breath burned my neck, there was a loud noise in the drying area as my husband knocked over the dustpan while rocking his wheelchair.