Raw Pleasures
She laughed—a low, smoky sound that rippled through me worse than the bass.
“Not yet,” she teased. “First, you have to see.”
She pushed the curtain aside, and I saw.
The Velvet Room opened wide into its core. A sunken circle lay at the center, cushioned in silks, lit by lanterns that swayed and burned with shadows. Dozens of bodies sprawled there—some dancing, some tangled in embraces, some watching with glazed eyes and parted lips. It was chaos and harmony at once, a living altar to desire.
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