DARK CRAVINGS. A COLLECTION OF STEAMY, SHORT STORIES.
The clatter of a dish being set down made me want to jump out of my skin, my heart leaping in my chest.
Peters was ogling at me.
I quickly looked away, hoping no one at the table would notice the fear creeping into my eyes.
I was trapped in the room, or felt trapped.
Unable to leave, yet my mind screamed for escape, for the safety of silence and solitude, where the weight of this invisible terror might finally lift.
Terror of Peters doing something terrible.
Something terrific like bringing out the pistol from wherever he was hiding it, aiming closely at Michael, and sending him to the heavens for sleeping with his legally married wife.