Half a Breath Away

Declan

Her eyes dilated until the amber ring around her irises narrowed to a thin sliver of light. The sheer panic in that look stirred something reckless and raw behind my ribs, a sudden spark catching dry timber. I had never posed for a centerfold in my life, but watching her breath hitch in the doorway was too sharp an opening to ignore.

"We could recreate one right now." I stepped over the t