Compilation Of Short Stories
“I’ve finished the last one. The Wraith’s Kiss. It made my skin feel too tight for my body. I could barely think for wanting.”
A slow, knowing smile touched his lips. This was their dance. She, a werewolf with a resistance to most toxins and a fascination with altered states, was his sole, secret tester. He would craft a bouquet with a specific, psychosomatic effect. She would take it to her loft, immerse herself in its aura, and report back the sensations. It was a dangerous, delicious game.
“I have just the thing,” he murmured.
He led her to the back, to a specimen grown under a bell jar. The flower was a deep, velvety crimson, almost black in the center, with a stamen that pulsed with a f