Kiss me 2.1
Worse: I watch her.
I meet Clara's gaze.
It's fixed. It's searching. It's waiting.
It's not attacking. Not yet.
I should say something.
But I no longer know what's true.
Or if I still believe in the truth.
Jade comes back with two coffees.
She hands me mine, our fingers brush.
And it's there, in that tiny gesture, that everything wavers.
— Thanks.
— You're welcome, Éric.
That name, said like that, with that deliberately neutral sweetness…