Levo#n agree-@s to l.*@ook` after his f\riend’s ;apartment*(; while (`@she is a/w;ay f[#or$ a few da#?ys. A.t firs:;:t, it ]+\feels
=, like s-tepping into som,e ?one else’s) world—her %(? ?*]
scent (,lin_).gers in the _? air, a book left op:en on the armres; +[t, =_a half-$ ;[burned candl*\e %][on the -=ni ^ght[`sta+`nd. As he;
 moves
throu-gh the space, a?,\djusti
ng t:!%o h,%is tempora?r y role a@/-s caretaker#., s]`omething catche@s his eye in the bed%/room: a piec%e of delic+
ate lingerie hanging from the-]( back of %a chair. \^#He knows he s houl\dn’#+t, but curiosit] y- tu\^gs at *,him. He wonders how. i,t wou[
ld feel against his skin, ,,.what it woul$#=d b\e like\ t,o - *,(slip (i#nt-]o something so int+imate, so(^ diffe`re?nt. The thought ling,er]_s longer than he _#.expects, g;rowing into temptation.