Blood And Desire
The moment her bare feet touched the thick rug, something inside her snapped awake, feral with hunger.
Her eyes—hollow, fever-bright—locked on the low table beside the chair. A bowl of fruit sat there: apples, pears, dark purple grapes, a few figs still glistening with dew. Fresh. Ripe. Real. She lunged.
Scarlett moved before thought and scrambled forward, hands shaking as she grabbed fistfuls of fruit, apple first, then pear, then grapes by the fistful. She shoved them into her mouth without pause—skin, seeds, stems, all of it—chewing with frantic, desperate speed, juice running down her chin and dripping onto the torn shift. She crammed more in, barely breathing between bites, as though af
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