Five More Minutes

Dante

Morning slid in quietly, the kind of soft, gold light that dissolved everything it touched. It seeped across the curtains, extending out onto the tangled sheets around our legs, and for the first time in days, I didn't notice the pressure pressing down on my chest.

Vittoria had me wrapped around her, head on my shoulder, one hand splashed across my chest as if staking claim on me even as I s