The Exam TableThe paper crinkled under me with every shift, too loud for a room meant to be calm. I pretended the noise was what made me nervous, but it wasn’t. It was him.The doctor moved like authority in a white coat, clipboard in hand, voice steady. But his eyes, God, his eyes betrayed him. They skimmed too slowly over my gown, lingered where the thin tie barely held the fabric shut.I tugged at the edge, making it gape wider. Innocence on the outside, fire underneath.“Breathe in,” he said, placing the stethoscope on my chest. Cold metal kissed warm skin, and I did as told slow, deep, deliberate. His jaw flexed, the faintest crack in his professionalism.He leaned closer, listening. His breath brushed my collarbone, too soft, too intimate. My pulse raced under the instrument, but it wasn’t my heartbeat he was hearing it was want, shameless and sharp, begging to be caught.I shifted again, legs dangling over the exam table, gown parting further. The paper crackled beneath me lik
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