Shadow of Desires — Chapter 2

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The steam from the bath clung to Sia’s skin, the scent of her lavender bath oil filling the air. She stood naked in front of the full-length mirror, but instead of the usual critical assessment of her reflection, her mind was a tangled mess of nerves and… excitement?

Jesus.

Her fingers traced the lines of her collarbone, her throat, a nervous habit she hadn’t realized she still had.

John had been meeting with Calvin? As in… actually meeting up? Her mind struggled to grasp it. Now dinner? The three of them? Had John lost his damn mind? Sure, she knew John had reconnected with their old college buddy Ryan, but Calvin… That was a different beast altogether.

It wasn’t that she’d never thought about him in all these years — his name, a ghost from a life less ordinary, had a habit of resurfacing at the oddest times. But to actually see him again…

She let herself sink back into the memory of those days. College. The parties, the endless nights studying (and not studying), the intoxicating freedom that crackled in the air. And Calvin, a force of nature in their neatly ordered lives, upending everything with his…