Chapter 3: The Slow Burn

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The weeks after the mall encounter dragged for Amber like a dream she couldn’t wake from. Every lecture on psychology seemed to echo the stranger’s stare. When the professor spoke of repressed desire, Amber’s mind flashed to the way his black eyes had stripped her bare in public. When they discussed the subconscious pull toward authority figures, her body responded with a treacherous heat between her thighs. She sat in class with her notebook open, pen motionless, feeling her heavy breasts rise and fall too quickly, nipples brushing the lace of her bra until they ached.