Désiré Me 2
Why did I watch her cry like one watches a storm, fascinated by the pure force of the tempest, even a tiny one?
I stand up, disturbed by the course of my thoughts. I go to the built-in bar, pour myself a cognac, swirl it in the glass. The alcohol burns with a comforting familiarity.
She is dangerous. Not because of a knife. But because of this… crack she opens in me. This tendency to question myself. A predator does not question itself. It acts. It possesses. It consumes.
I turn, leaning against the bar, and watch her again.
The sunlight at this altitude gives her a pale halo around her chignon. She is beautiful, with a broken beauty that is more troubling than perfection. She is the chaos I
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