My Neighbour's Wife
Where my hunger should have risen, it falls, giving way to something soft, so vulnerable, a sob travels from the pit of my belly, and I break away first before he can see my vulnerability, or even worse, taste it on the tears that threaten to spill down my cheeks.
My fingers fidget over the buttons of my shirt as I struggle to put them back in place. "I...should go," I say, and yet, all I want is to bury my head in the hollow of his neck, wrap my arms around him and kiss him until I lose myself completely in him. I want him never to stop holding me like I'm something good, something special, something worth fighting and killing for. But I recognize the feeling in my chest, and I recognize th
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