The Serpent's Heart
The sheer friction of her movement against me sent a white-hot wave of heat straight to my core, my breathing hitching as a low, guttural growl ripped from deep inside my chest.
And yet, even through the dizzying, narcotic rush of heat, the harsh reality of our lives hummed beneath our skin like an exposed electrical wire.
Arthur’s name wasn't spoken aloud in the room, but his toxic shadow lingered heavily in the corners, clinging to the rafters. It lived in the cold, legal reality of the divorce papers sitting on the prosecutor's desk across town, in the purple bruises she was still physically healing from, in the absolute, explosive destruction we were both leaving in our wake. She was sti