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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.
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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.