DAMIAN BLACKWOOD
I moved even closer to her, and her breath paused.
There was a flicker of surprise in her eyes before that disappeared, and something warmer followed it, a thing that filled my chest with a sensation I thought strange. She didn't move away now but stood so close to me that the whole house suddenly felt smaller, and the space between us seemed to pull us even closer together, drawing us nearer to each other.
I looked at her and caught a loose strand of hair across her eye. It was like a c***k on some beautiful wall or a random scribble across a painting by some unskilled artist who impeded the original work. She also turned to say something to me and caught me staring at her.
"Damian..." she began...
Her voice faded off so that her lips hung open, and I found myself i
