Aether's Obsession
“Still spiraling?”
"Shut up,” Elias panted, and dragged him back into another kiss, grinding harder, chasing the heat that had been building between them for months.
Neither of them heard Mara come back in from the balcony.
She stood in the doorway for a moment, took in the scene with the expression of someone whose hypothesis has just been confirmed by the data, and quietly reversed direction. The door hissed shut behind her. She looked out at the desert moons and took a long, thoughtful pull from her half-smoked roll.