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October 14th, 10:14 PM

I wasn't looking for the safe, not yet; I was looking for the specific way he held his champagne flute, like he was weighing a weapon.

44 min · 308 views · masquerade ball

Brittle Steam

The steam was so thick I couldn’t see my own knees, but I could hear her breathing, rhythmic and heavy, just three feet away.

22 min · 361 views · mountain spa

Seriously, Who Does This?

His hand was already moving under the hem of my borrowed robe, finding the wet heat of me with a terrifying, practiced accuracy.

25 min · 969 views · luxury resort

Grip

Liam looked like a mid-century modern chair—expensive, structurally sound, and entirely uncomfortable for anything but a short, high-impact stay.

8 min · 1,151 views · reconnect

A Magnesium Block, Shaved Thin

The wind is screaming off the ridgeline like a jet engine, but all I can hear is her breath hitching against my neck.

11 min · 1,024 views · mountain retreat

Plastic Marble

The humidity in the ballroom was a physical weight, pressing the scent of expensive gin and industrial floor wax into the back of his throat.

14 min · 2,037 views · masquerade ball

Can You Honestly Say You Expected the Fire Alarm?

You looked like a man who had just lost a multi-million dollar account, or perhaps found something much more interesting in the stairwell.

11 min · 182 views · hotel bar

We Never Even Swapped Last Names

He had a smudge of lithium grease behind his ear that I wanted to lick off more than I wanted the champagne.

11 min · 1,609 views · mediterranean

Wait For The Burn

I watched the sweat track a slow, glistening line down the canyon of your chest, and I hated you for breathing so easily.

10 min · 982 views · recovery room

There’s No Graceful Way to Sit on a Rolling Ladder

I’m fifty-one, and I’ve written enough sex scenes to populate a small town, but doing it on a mahogany floor is a different plot twist.

11 min · 762 views · slow burn

Ballast

She had a way of looking at her phone that suggested she was waiting for a ransom demand or a very specific apology.

16 min · 904 views · amtrak

Fast Slow

He tracked the line of her throat like a melody he’d been humming for a decade but finally found the words for.

9 min · 498 views · boutique bookstore