Sweet Dreams
The emphasis.
“Please,” he says. Something so soft in his voice, so painful in his need. Even his body sags with the letting go, the asking.
His shoulders soften.
I reach across the counter, touch one of his fingers as it covers the book. “Something in particular?”
He bites his bottom lip, making an indent in the pink curves. There is a space of time, two or three seconds, where he can still back out. Buy the book instead. I wait.
“You” he says, finally.