Heated Pleasure
They settled onto the plush sofa facing the fire, the cushions yielding under their weight, close enough that their knees nearly touched.
The drink warmed her from within as she sipped, the burn spreading through her chest, loosening the knots of the day's wreckage. Conversation flowed in murmurs—fragments of shared disdain for Thorne's deceit, laced with tentative admissions of their own guarded hearts. Riven's hand rested on the cushion between them, inches from her thigh, the proximity building a quiet pressure. Liora's thoughts drifted to the car, to the kiss that had cracked open something raw and real within her. Here, in this firelit sanctuary, that pull intensified, drawing her gaze
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