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He pinned me against the mahogany, the smell of dust and old money mixing with the sharp, saline scent of my own arousal.
Her skin tasted like the salt-air of the Gulf and the expensive, cloying sugar of a violet-scented macaron.
You look at me over the top of her head, your jaw tight as a bowstring, and I know I’m not supposed to be here.
Her skin tasted of salt and expensive gin, a combination that made my mouth water like a steak hitting a white-hot skillet.
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.
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.
My pulse was a frantic, irregular rhythm in my neck, a physiological betrayal of the clinical indifference I’d spent six years perfecting.
The leather of my raptor mask smelled of tanning oils and the salt of my own breath, trapped against my lips.
The mask was meant to conceal our identities, but it actually just amplified the hunger I’d been repressing for three solid months.
The lace of your mask was digging into your temple, a minor penance for the way you were looking at my throat.
He tastes like the first press of a cane harvest, raw and heavy with the promise of something that could burn.
He tasted like the first humid press of a New Orleans July, thick with the promise of a storm that never breaks.