But as soon as he turned to head to bed, she felt the phantom chill. She remembered the way he used to look at her—not with Thomas's gentle affection, but with a desperate, reckless hunger. They had been fire and gasoline. It had been toxic, exhausting, and entirely unsustainable. They had burned out in a spectacular crash of broken glass and silent phone calls.
Ten years ago, the world had been different. It was louder, sweatier, and smelled of asphalt and expensive cologne. There was a club called The Fever on the outskirts of the city, where the lights were never bright enough to see the truth, only the heat. Ich will immer wieder... dieses Fieber spГјr'n
She turned off the lights, the house falling into a perfect, silent order. She walked toward the bedroom, toward her stable life, but for one fleeting second, she let herself get lost in the heat of the memory, knowing that some fevers never truly break. But as soon as he turned to head