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He looked at me like I was a sequence he couldn't quite master, all limbs and breath and stubborn refusal to find center.
Her skin tasted like the salt-air of the Gulf and the expensive, cloying sugar of a violet-scented macaron.
I want to see if you taste like that bourbon you’ve been nursing, or if you’re just as sweet and dangerous as a peach soaked in moonshine.
He was leaning against the parapet like he owned the air rights to the entire block, looking at me like I was a billable hour he couldn't wait to waste.
Her spine had that neutral, dangerous curve of a loaded spring, and the way her husband watched me watch her made the wine in my throat turn to liquid lead.
The draft from the floorboards was a minor line item compared to the sheer thermal output of his mouth against her inner thigh.
The diesel engines hummed beneath the floorboards, a low-frequency growl that shook the marrow of their bones as they moved together.
He didn’t look at the dough. He looked at me, his thumb tracing a slow, deliberate line through the flour on the marble.
Her skin had the texture of a well-worn Manduka mat—grippy, warm, and resilient—against the cold industrial concrete of the studio floor.
She was vibrating at a frequency that would have shattered a lesser man, a high, sharp C-sharp that tasted like lightning.
The flour on my palms left white handprints on his dark trousers, a literal trail of my own undoing.
He tastes like the coffee we drank an hour ago and the cold air he brought in from the porch, sharp and grounding.