ECHOES OF DESIRE
All three of them at once, tangled and gasping, the warehouse filled with the sounds of skin and breath and the specific noise of people who have been carrying something heavy and have finally, briefly, put it down.
Afterward they slid to the floor in a heap, sweat-damp and trembling, the anger burned completely clean through, leaving something rawer and quieter in the space where it had been.
Echo was still there. It was always still there.
It whispered, low and almost amused, the voice of something that had watched the whole thing with great interest.
See? Even your anger tastes good.
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