Intricacies of the heart
Midnight blurred into heat, into whispered praise, into fingers trembling against skin, into kisses that lingered like promises, into a kind of intimacy I would never forget.
I didn’t wake up gently. I woke up because someone knocked, light, rhythmic taps followed by the unmistakable shuffle of multiple feet outside our villa door. For a moment I panicked, disoriented and still half drunk on the way Crest had ruined me at midnight. I shifted, wincing slightly, and felt the cool weight of the diamond necklace resting against my collarbone. Right, diamonds, my man, my birthday. Crest, sprawled beside me, lifted his head from the pillow with the slow confusion of someone who absolutely did not
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