“Unspoken Fantasies”

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This chapter is for Club members only. You’ve found the part of the story most people never get to read. Join the Club

This chapter is for Club members only. You’ve found the part of the story most people never get to read. Join the Club

This chapter is for Club members only. You’ve found the part of the story most people never get to read. Join the Club

This chapter is for Club members only. You’ve found the part of the story most people never get to read. Join the Club

This chapter is for Club members only. You’ve found the part of the story most people never get to read. Join the Club

It happened a few weeks later. Not late at night. Not early morning. Just ordinary timing, which somehow made it worse. I came home after practice earlier than usual. Coach had cut us loose once the scrimmage started falling apart, and the bus dropped us off before the streetlights came on. The house was quiet….

The day Savannah moved in, it wasn’t snowing. It was late August. The kind of heavy city heat that sticks to the back of your neck and makes everything feel slower than it is. I was seventeen. Two weeks away from the start of senior year. Pretending I wasn’t thinking about college yet. Her boxes…

It started snowing sometime after noon. By the time Nora and I pulled up outside my mom’s place, the driveway was already white and the maple tree in the front yard looked heavier than usual, branches bending under it. “Your mom’s going to make us shovel before dinner,” Nora said, stepping out of the car….

I’m twenty-seven years old, holding my niece on my hip at my mom’s Christmas dinner, and Savannah is across the room laughing at something her husband said. Her husband. Chris. A genuinely decent guy I have no legitimate reason to dislike, which is honestly the most inconvenient part. She has snow in her hair. She…