Touch me tender, Break me wild: A Steamy Compilation
It clinked on the stall, and he snatched it quick, nodding once before turning back to his herbs.
The path to the outskirts wound narrow and overgrown, the village fading behind me like a half-remembered dream. The black oaks rose tall and gnarled, their branches twisting like skeletal fingers against the gray sky. The hut squatted at their base, moss-covered and leaning, smoke trickling from a chimney that looked ready to topple. My heart pounded as I approached, the door creaking open before I even knocked. Inside, the air was thick with the scent of dried flowers and something sharper—sulfur, maybe, or old magic. Candles flickered on shelves lined with jars of glowing liquids and shrivele