AFTER DARK
she replied, her voice a soft, steady sound that was a perfect, symphonic soundtrack to their shared, secret sin.
They lay there in the quiet dark, not talking, just being. It was a strange, intimate quiet, a comfortable, familiar silence that was a stark, thrilling contrast to the brutal, physical passion they had shared earlier. It was the silence of two people who had crossed a line, who had ventured into a new, uncharted territory and had found something they didn't know they were looking for. It was the silence of two people who had found their home.
And as they drifted off to sleep, a warm, happy weight in each other's arms, they knew, with a certainty that was both terrifying and exhi