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Flowers and Lies

Penulis: Lazywriter
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-01-22 15:26:00

Miguel woke up hard.

The morning light filtered through his curtains, and the first thing his mind registered—before coffee, before the day's meetings, before anything else—was the insistent throb between his legs and the images burned into his brain from last night.

Red.

God, Red.

He reached for his phone on the nightstand, pulled up the photos she'd sent. They were still there, not some fever dream his exhausted mind had conjured. Bare skin. Curves that made his mouth water. That fucking red
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