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I lurch back, overwhel

Ash blinks "Uh, sure That sounds… Yeah"

For a moment, he looks as unravelled as I feel: his eyes dark with lust, his breath coether: s out of the booth He offers entleht air is a welcoainst my hot skin We walk in silence for a couple of blocks, hand in hand; we’re heading don, but I barely notice the streets around us The lights and noise of New York pale in co slowly beside uess froht up in the ainsthotly over my skin I wonder what it would take to make him come undone for real Push him past the brink of this careful facade, until he can’t si out of control

Wild and unleashed

I snap out of hts and look around We’re in the financial district now, surrounded by e?" I ask

"Right here" Ash stops in front of a construction site I look up, confused The shell of the building is standing, but there are no s--just concrete, steel girders and scaffolding It’s totally silent and dark Deserted

I look back at Ash and raise my eyebrows "I maybe should have asked earlier, but you’re not a serial killer, right?"

He chuckles "No This is ," he explains "I’h the project I wanted to show you, it has the most spectacular views in the city"

"Hmm" I pretend to think about it "I don’t know Are you a stalker?" I test "Part-tiuy?"

"No, and no I pro ticket to rin

"That just ht," I tease

His smile slips "Hey, if you’re not coo up Whatever you want"

"I was kidding," I laugh, slipping uy"

"But you don’t even know o around following strange s, but this is different I o, but already I know that I’h," I shrug, unable to explain "And just in case, I’ve gotfrohs "You’re kidding"