HER INSECURITY, MY TEMPTATION--MAFIA
On the side of his chest, against his smooth, warm skin, was a dark, intricate tattoo.
My gaze slowed, focusing on it completely now, drawn in by the depth of it. The figure of a fallen angel stretched across his side, the wings wide but broken, the feathers dark and uneven, as though they had been torn apart.
There was something painfully beautiful about it.
The way the angel’s body was slightly lowered, like it had fallen from something higher… like it had lost something it could never get back.
I found myself staring longer than I should have, my earlier embarrassment fading into something softer… something heavier.