90-DAYS WET
Should have smoothed her dress, laughed it off, gone home to her immaculate bedroom and her distant husband, pretending this was just another story she’d never tell.
Instead, she asked, “Honest about what?”
“What you want.”
The room felt smaller suddenly. Thicker. Elise became acutely aware of everything…his hand still on her hip, Doris’s gaze heavy on her skin, the faint hum of the city outside, unaware that her life was quietly cracking open.
She thought of Richard. Of his distracted kisses. Of being adored like a possession and ignored like a woman.
“I want,” she said slowly, “to feel like I’m not invisible.”
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