Dirty and Sinful Collection
5Maya.
Some nights, everything is loud—laughter, voices, footsteps in the hallway. Tonight felt like that. I sat on the back steps, bare legs pressed to the cool wood, listening to the hum of conversation drifting through the open windows. My heart wouldn’t settle.
Harper was inside, flushed and happy, her arm linked through the elbow of a guy I’d never seen before—tall, golden-skinned, with the cocky, easy confidence of someone who knew he looked good. They’d met at the party, apparently, and now she was bringing him home for “one last drink.”