EDEN: Steamy Forbidden Pleasures
We're hunkered down till morning.
Rain hit like a freight train, wind howling through the palms. We cooked canned beans over a gas stove, the hut lit by lantern flicker. Conversation flowed easier than I expected, him sharing war stories (sanitized, of course), me venting about city life, the emptiness after the funeral. His laugh was rare, deep, sending vibrations through me when he leaned close to pass the salt.