Deep Inside
“So tell me—what’s left of your soul now?”
“Only you,” he said. “Only this.”
The room pulsed with silence after that. What followed wasn’t gentle. It wasn’t cruel, either. It was the kind of intimacy that stripped them bare of everything except truth. The world outside, the rain, the city, the kingdom of crime he’d built, ceased to exist. There was only the sound of their breathing, the press of skin, the realization that some addictions aren’t meant to be cured.