My writing seems empty, somehow.


She gave him her virgin dazzling smile, the very one that was to weaken and shatter scores of hearts in years to come. Months later, she was to realize the power a simple tilt of her lips could yield, manipulate it to her own use, little white lies. Gavin blinked, a moment’s epiphany; approval in his brief caressing glance, the shy raise of eyebrows.