✨ Tides of Desire.✨ Nasir Pov Nasir drove to work with Flora’s voice still echoing in his head. I need you. The words had stayed with him the entire ride across the city. Traffic moved slowly through the early morning streets, sunlight barely beginning to spill between the buildings. Normally he used the quiet drive to organize the day in his mind—meetings, calls, problems that needed solving. Today his focus kept drifting back to the bedroom. To the way Flora had looked sitting on the edge of the bed. To the frustration in her eyes when he stepped away. He gripped the steering wheel a little tighter. Five days. He knew exactly how long it had been because he had counted too. Not out of obligation—out of restraint. Every night he had watched her fall asleep beside him, one hand

