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He held the stem of the glass like a throat, his thumb tracing the rim with a precision that made her lungs feel suddenly too small for her chest.
The way he looked at me wasn't a glance; it was a reconnaissance mission, and I was wide open for the taking.
The way your breath catches against the shutter’s click suggests you aren’t nearly as bored with this as you’re pretending to be.
She looked at me the way a line cook looks at a ticket rail during a Friday rush—total focus and predatory.
The humidity in Grant Park felt like a breach of contract, a heavy, suffocating weight that made every inch of skin feel litigious and over-sensitized.
I have taught three hundred students that tension requires a delayed gratification, but you are a master of the cruelest syllabus I have ever encountered.
The studio smelled of ozone and expensive dust, a sterile environment where he planned to dissect me with a high-definition lens.
He gripped the back of her neck, his thumb tracing the frantic beat of her pulse against the vineyard’s humid twilight.
!["I'm Counting Every Minute You’re Not Under My Thumb"](https://miscd.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/medium/"i'm-counting-every-minute-you’re-not-under-my-thumb"-419-cover-1784246467772.jpg)
The saxophone wailed like a widow while I watched her pulse jump against the high collar of that black silk shirt.
!["You’re Smirking Into Your Gin Again"](https://miscd.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/medium/"you’re-smirking-into-your-gin-again"-364-cover-1783987240275.jpg)
I looked at the phone in my clutch, the screen a tiny white sun against the charcoal walls of the gallery.
!["You’ve Been Holding Your Breath Since the Lobby"](https://miscd.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/medium/"you’ve-been-holding-your-breath-since-the-lobby"-583-cover-1783814453050.jpg)
The humidity in St. Barts was a physical weight, much like the expectation that I would remain composed while Kieran dismantled my autonomy.
The leather of my raptor mask smelled of tanning oils and the salt of my own breath, trapped against my lips.