Sienna stared at the bathroom mirror, the steam from the hot shower fogging the glass, blurring the woman she used to be. She had crossed lines she could never uncross.
The thrill had become a living thing inside her chest. It pulsed louder every time she let him in, every time she felt him against her skin while her husband slept above them. She was addicted, and addictions never ended clean.
The phone buzzed against the counter.
She didn’t need to look. She already knew who it was.
Adrian: “One last night. My place. No excuses.”
Her fingers hovered over the screen. She should say no. She should end it here, before everything burned down.
But her body was already making the decision her mind refused to.
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His apartment was nothing like her home.
Dark. Bare. A few books stacked on
