Haunting Romantics
These sensations rushing through the form she inhabited now were different from anything she had known while she was alive, sharper in some ways and more fragile in others, as though desire itself were the thread holding her together.
When she had lived, she had heard the women in town whispering behind their hands about the things they did with men, their voices low and scandalized, full of warnings and fascination all at once. The acts themselves had always been described as carnal, dirty indulgences that society frowned upon, something dangerous that could ruin a girl if she allowed herself to want too much.
But now, here in her house, in his bed, those rules felt distant and meaningless.
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