Not just in sight, but in my thoughts. In the quiet spaces I don’t share with anyone. Seeing her changed something. Now her voice lingers in my head, her expressions replaying like fragments. The memory of her perfume awakens something primal in me.
Some nights, I sense her before I see her. My body reacts first, like it knows she’s close. I catch myself searching for her in the dark, watching from the shadows where she cannot see me. I look to her windows, wondering if she’s home. I can’t help it… I have to see her.
I have wanted before, but not like this. This is obsession. A craving. I’m not a man who should be distracted, but she makes it impossible. There’s danger in this, in me, in the life I lead. But now that I’ve met her I can’t stop. I wonder how her skin would feel under my fingers as I trace them from her face to her neck. How her breath would quicken when I pull her close, how she’d look up at me with eyes full of desire. I imagine pressing her against me, making sure she feels what she does to me, letting her know she’s the reason I’m this hard, how much I want to make her mine. I’d kiss her until she forgets where she is, my hand in her hair, pulling gentle but certain.
Some nights, I think she feels me too… this desire between us, this pull that won’t let go.