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The scaffolding groaned beneath us, a rusted skeleton articulating our shared sins against the backdrop of a cold, indifferent New England sky.
You look like you're trying to calculate the ROI on looking at me, and honestly, the math isn't checking out.
She smells like expensive paper and the kind of tequila that makes you forget your own zip code.
There’s a specific kind of silence in a bookstore at midnight, a density of unread words that feels like a physical weight against your skin.
You are a storm in a silk dress, pinned between the cold window and the two of us, tasting like rain and gin.
The city lights below looked like a scattered pile of gold nuggets in a miner's pan, but Sloane only had eyes for the way Dominic’s suit jacket pulled across his shoulders.
He tasted like the first humid press of a New Orleans July, thick with the promise of a storm that never breaks.
He looked at me across the tasting room like I was a budget deficit he intended to balance with his bare hands.
Elara felt the vibration of his intent before he even spoke, a low-frequency hum that settled deep in her marrow.
He watched the way the compression fabric of her leggings fought against the curve of her hip, a silent, high-tension drama.
The friction of your thumb against the inside of my wrist was more disruptive than the forty-thousand dollar canvas hanging to our left.
Her fingers were stained purple with juice from the crushed blackberries, a messy contrast to the clinical precision of her knife work.