The Devil's Broken Doll
Cool where she needed it, warm where she still clung to heat.
Adelaide sucked in a breath. The sensation made her shiver, as if heaven and hell had briefly agreed on her temperature.
The gown was sheer, flowing. Its colour: infernal red, the Devil’s colour, shot through with darker threads that caught torchlight like embers banked beneath silk. The fabric clung just enough to hint at the shape beneath, never hiding, always suggesting. It moved when she breathed, when she shifted, when Apollo walked—alive in a way leather never was.