In just ten weeks, they decided to get away from the city and spend the weekend in the country. So they chucked their overnighters into his fancy blue beemer, left the city and headed down south, hundreds of miles down towards the Great Ocean Road until they reached a magnificent cliff overlooking the testy waters with an exposed moon. There they held each other, tottering over a precarious edge in drunken stupor.
There, bathed in the full moonlight, he held her face in his hands, and kissed her spirit. Her knees crumbled. He was about to say something, but before the voice could formulate any word, she bit his lip.
His arms tightened. Hips adjusted. Eyes narrowed as an eagle would towards an object of desire. Mouth melded into hers.
How so predictable.
What happened next? Read the rest of this short story when She Never Looks Quite Back by Mallika Naguran is out in 2022.