Forbidden Affairs
Lila came with a guttural cry, nails carving crescents into the wood, begging in French for more, harder, ruin me.
They marked each other in places clothes would hide: bite marks on inner thighs, fingerprints on hips, scratches down backs that burned in the shower.
Someone saw them.
A grainy photograph appeared in Evelyn’s departmental mailbox: the two of them in the underground garage, Lila pressed against the driver’s door of Evelyn’s Audi, skirt hiked, Evelyn’s hand clearly between her legs. Another showed them kissing in the elevator, mouths fused, Lila’s thigh riding high between Evelyn’s.