The Secret Muse

Cora's POV

Heat flooded my cheeks. If only he knew. If only he knew the things I wrote late at night. The scenes I imagined. The way I pictured his hands on my skin.

"Maybe that's exactly why I write them. It's an escape where I get to live out my fantasies. Things I'm too shy to express in real life."

His eyes widened slightly, darkening. "Wow."

"What?"

"I just didn't expect that." He paused. "Wh