Serpentine Desires
“You’ll be seeing it for a long, long time.”
The bathroom door closed behind me with a quiet click, and I took in the vast, gleaming space around me. Marble walls soared high, polished and cold, and every fixture gleamed with a calculated luxury, meant to dazzle, to awe. But it felt like a gilded cage, an inescapable prison with no windows, no way out, and nothing sharp enough to use if I ever needed it. A hollow sigh escaped my lips as I turned on the shower, the water pounding to life like a heartbeat, steady and scalding hot.