After the Curtain Falls

VALERIE

After the guards took Damian and Vivienne away, the room fell silent and I sat there naked on the bed, the sheets bunched around my hips, my skin still slick with sweat and the evidence of what we had just done drying between my thighs. Roman walked over to the balcony, peeked through the window with careful precision, and then turned back to me.

"They are gone," he said.

I nodded,