*Castor*

For the longest time, we only look at each other, as though we are weighing words, confessions, interest, vulnerabilities. She is the first to glance away, licking her lips as she does so, causing a tightness low in my belly that might have dropped me to my knees had I been standing. Had she always possessed this power over me, tantalizing and seducing with so little effort ? Or does knowing she is in pursuit of another serve to awaken me to the notion that I would like her to be in pursuit of me ?

But through marriage to me, she can not gain what she covets. I...