Venom & Vows
I open today's box.
The tissue paper is black. Underneath it, folded in neat layers, is lingerie. A full set from a Russian boutique I do not recognise, everything in black lace and ivory silk. Bras. Underwear. Two bodysuits with delicate cutwork detailing. A suspender set. A silk babydoll so fine it catches the light when I lift it. All of it precisely in my correct size, which means someone measured me, or researched me, or both, and I feel something cold move across the back of my neck at that thought.
Caspian starts a sentence. I do not hear the beginning of it because my hand has found the bottom of the box through the layers of lace and silk and closed around something that does not fe
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