✤ Adrian ✤
The room was dim, washed in the warm glow of the bedside lamp, and the air still held the faint sweetness of Sera’s perfume mixed with the heat of what we had just done. The sheets were a mess. My body felt heavy, satisfied, and strangely weightless. Like something inside me had been loosened after being knotted too tightly for too long. Sera lay beside me on her stomach, her cheek pressed into the pillow, her hair strewn across the sheets like ink spilled in soft waves. She looked peaceful in a way I hadn’t seen before. Soft. Unarmored. It made something deep in my chest tug a little harder than I was prepared for. I reached out and brushed my fingers slowly along her spine. She shivered, just slightly, then sighed as she shifted onto her side to face me. Her eyes were still h
