I woke up alone.Sunlight cut across the bed in clean white lines. The sheets still smelled like him—soap, skin, sex. My body ached in places I hadn’t known could ache, a deep, pleasant soreness between my thighs that made me press them together just to feel it again.Liam was gone. The bathroom door stood open, the shower dry. Downstairs I heard the low clink of a mug, the quiet hum of the coffee machine.I sat up slowly. My clothes were still in a small pile on the floor where I’d dropped them yesterday. I left them there.I found one of his shirts in the walk-in closet—soft gray, long enough to hit mid-thigh—and pulled it on without buttoning it. The fabric smelled like him. I walked downstairs barefoot, the cool floors grounding me.He was in the kitchen, leaning against the counter in black sweatpants and nothing else, scrolling on his phone. Steam rose from a ceramic mug beside him. When he looked up, his eyes moved over me in a slow, deliberate sweep—from the open shirt, to the
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