All Yours
Just… waiting.
Her balcony faced the one next door, separated by a low iron railing and a tangle of ivy that neither of them bothered to trim. She’d noticed him the first week he moved in—twenty-six, maybe twenty-seven, tall and lean-muscled, ink curling across his shoulders and down both arms in intricate sleeves of black and gray. He kept odd hours: motorcycle rumbling in at three a.m., gym bag slung over one shoulder at dawn, shirtless push-ups on his own balcony when the sun first cleared the rooftops.