Screwed Into Forever [Forbidden Collection]
I locked the front door, dimmed the overhead lights to just the warm glow of the reading lamps, and flipped the sign to *Closed* but didn't lock it.
The shop smelled like old paper, cedar shelves, and the faint vanilla of the candle I’d lit earlier.
I should have gone home. Should have poured wine, watched the ball drop on my tiny TV, toasted alone.
Instead I lingered.
I wandered to the back corner—the erotica section nobody ever asked for help finding. I pulled a slim volume from the top shelf:
The Art of Surrender.
The cover was black with gold lettering, no photo. Perfect.
I sank into the worn velvet armchair tucked between the stacks, the one customers sometimes used to read a chapter be