The Accidental Heart
She didn't check the market summaries.
She stood with her back against the wooden door, her chest rising and falling in shallow, ragged intervals.
Her oversized sunglasses were pushed up into her dark waves, leaving her emerald eyes unshielded, dark, and burning with a frantic, uncalculated heat.
Avery stood three feet away, having tossed her linen shirt onto the edge of the mattress.
She was breathing just as heavily, her heart hammering a violent rhythm against her ribs.
The taste of fig jam and the ghostly pressure of Vivian’s thumb on her lower lip still vibrated through her nervous system.