The Davenport Effect

The sheer audacity of what I'd spat into Vance Davenport's face was still buzzing through my teeth. I had actually denied him, walking away while leaving him in that suffocating garage, yet my entire body remained tuned to the phantom heat of his touch. Hunched over the sticky mahogany of a dive bar three miles out, I gripped my condensation-slicked glass like an anchor.

"Why the long face, princ