Closer by Charlotte Stein

Author:Charlotte Stein [Stein, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Fiction
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2010-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

Closer

He didn’t give her a moment to think about it or gather herself. He waited by her chair until she stood too, and followed him to the little space-age-looking curving toilet in the middle of the train. Of course she’d been in one before—to calm herself down, to wash her hands, to splash water on her usually too-hot face—and knew what they looked like inside.

But it seemed very different being trapped in there, suddenly, with another person.

Other people took up a lot of space, even in the new and improved bathrooms trains now had. And that applied doubly to him and all of his excessive tallness. His hands alone appeared to take up masses of the cold blue space, as though he could have reached out and covered everything with one well-placed touch.

She hoped the well-placed touch was going to be all over her. Of course, he could have been thinking about touching the toilet or the sink, but somehow she doubted it. A person didn’t ask another person to come with them unless they really meant it.

Though she had no idea what he might have been meaning by any of this. She didn’t even know when he reached past her to lock the door, then stood before her, waiting. She couldn’t guess what he was waiting for. He looked just as confusing out in the open as he had closed in and hunched in his seat, the contrast in his features also present in his clothes in an odd, disjointed way.

He wore a suit but had paired it with Converse trainers and a t-shirt. Some kind of swirling, faded design adorned the front of said t-shirt, but she couldn’t make it out completely. The jacket hid it.

And then he reached out one casual hand and turned her around, just like that, and hid the rest of himself from her. She didn’t protest. It seemed impolite, or like she hadn’t fully grasped the purpose of whatever this was. Instead she gazed at the blank gray door that had shut them in and felt cold and strange without the press of a hundred bodies.

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