Shadows of Desire
Distance had become our language—every clipped instruction, every careful pause, every glance that avoided what it really wanted.
And tomorrow, when Lena made the drop, when the sting unfolded, that distance would either hold us together in fragile alignment or snap us apart completely.
I walked home alone, the city’s neon bleeding into puddles at my feet, and thought of all the words Victor and I carried like stones in our mouths, heavy, unsaid, waiting for a moment that never seemed to come.
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