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Her skin tasted like the sea, which was a lie, because we were in the middle of the Tuscan hills, miles from any coast.
I watched the way your thumb smoothed over the flour on the marble, a rhythmic, unconscious erasure of everything but our immediate proximity.
!["You’ve Got Flour on Your Eyelashes"](https://miscd.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/medium/"you’ve-got-flour-on-your-eyelashes"-862-cover-1785110466336.jpg)
He leaned in until the heat from his chest radiated through my silk slip, his breath smelling of peppery olive oil and gin.
My billable hour is four hundred and fifty dollars, yet I’m standing in a basement in Pienza letting a man tell me I’m incompetent.
You leaned over the workstation, your forearms dusted with 00 flour, and I realized then that you enjoyed being corrected.
Her fingers were stained purple with juice from the crushed blackberries, a messy contrast to the clinical precision of her knife work.
I watched the flour settle in the fine hairs of your forearms, a dusting of white against skin the color of toasted cedar.
The flour on my palms left white handprints on his dark trousers, a literal trail of my own undoing.
Her thumb traced the rim of her glass, catching a stray drop of Sangiovese like she was wiping a secret off my lip.
He didn't touch my hand so much as he redefined the space where my skin ended and the flour began.
!["Keep Your Eyes on the Knife"](https://miscd.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/medium/"keep-your-eyes-on-the-knife"-474-cover-1775998845624.jpg)
He tasted like the last bit of crusty bread used to swipe a plate of debris—salt, fat, and the ghost of a good red wine.