Shared In Tangled Sheets
Everything smelled faintly of lavender and night air, yet it all felt wrong.
She shut the door softly, as if loudness might break something fragile that hadn’t already shattered.
At her desk, the laptop's glow painted her face in shifting light. The cursor blinked on an empty document, she stared at it until her eyes blurred.
She’d opened and closed the same file at least ten times, trying to write, trying to feel normal again. Every sentence she typed came out twisted— brittle.
Delete. Type again. Delete.
The memory replayed in fragments. The tension in Xander’s eyes, the way his voice broke between anger and desperation, the moment his hands gripped her arms too tightly.