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The clasp snagged on the cuff of my jacket, a tiny silver anchor keeping us moored in a room full of people we both despised.
I could feel the vibration of the tracks through her hip bones, a steady thrumming that made every slide of my hand feel like a confession.
He tasted like expensive gin and the sort of reckless ambition that only survives in basement clubs after two in the morning.
I knew I was over the line the second I saw her in that white dress, looking like a target I wasn't allowed to hit.
Julian held the crystal over the guttering candle, his thumb tracing the rim as if he were checking a witness’s pulse for lies.
Your mouth on my neck felt like the low E string on my daddy’s old Gibson—thick, humming, and heavy enough to make the floorboards shudder.
I told him the mud wrap was a spiritual cleansing, but I really just wanted to see if his composure would crack under the silt.
The way he looked at her across the fretboard wasn't about the chord progression; it was a rehearsal for something much louder.
My psoas muscle, usually the first thing to tighten under stress, felt like it was melting into the gallery floor.
She had a way of looking at her phone that suggested she was waiting for a ransom demand or a very specific apology.
She’s standing there in that silk slip looking like a tactical error I’m about to make with my eyes wide open.
His hand is a heavy weight against my throat, not squeezing yet, just a binding clause I haven't figured out how to litigate.