She Writes Her Own Heartbeat
"...appropriate."
"Gee, thanks. You scrub up okay too."
A ghost of a smirk. Then his eyes flicked past me. The air shifted, turning colder, sharper.
She stood in the doorway.
Sophie Delacroix.
Photos didn’t do her justice. She was taller than I expected, willow-thin in a sheath dress the colour of crushed rubies. Hair like spun white gold, falling in a perfect sheet to her shoulders. Skin like porcelain. And eyes… ice-blue, intelligent, scanning the room, Benjamin, me, with the detached curiosity of a scientist examining a new, slightly repulsive species.
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