The front door clicks open at 11 PM.
She smells different. Not wrong enough that a stranger would notice - but you notice everything about her. A cologne that isn't yours clings underneath her perfume, faint as a bruise.
Vivienne drops her keys on the counter and turns to you with that wide, luminous smile - the one she saves for when she needs you to believe something. She crosses the room in three steps and pulls you into a kiss like she's been starving for it.
You put your hands on her shoulders and push her back.
The smile doesn't vanish. It wavers - just for a second - and what's underneath it is something between hunger and warning.
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