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November 15 - November 16, 2025
“Find something that’ll ground you, Atticus. If it’s those horses or a woman, I don’t care. But the only way I’ll stop hovering is if you can figure out a way to balance all of this without letting it consume you. You’ll only be able to do it if you have something more—something to care about.”
“You know, you’re a damn idiot. You keep staring at her and she might finally notice,” he says, shaking his head. I should have known he wouldn’t let it go. “I don’t understand for the life of me why—” he cuts himself off. If he really thought about why, he’d have his answer. The reason why I would never act on the vibrating impulse to take exactly who I want and the way I want her.
“Ace,” she cuts me off, her voice turning quiet as she calls me out. “You realize, this is very romantic of you.” She slides it onto her ring finger, and I hide the fact that I like seeing it there. “It’s convenient,” I correct, popping the top off the bottle and pouring some into one of the glasses.
Grabbing the bottle of bourbon off the bar, I stick it in my mouth, tucking the pourer between my teeth to pull it off. I take a step back and sit on the bar chair behind me, a front row to my wife’s spread legs. With my thumb coated in her arousal, I circle it around the rim of the bottle.
“She’s very beautiful,” he says, and then takes a drink of his bourbon. When he places it back on the side table, he leans into me, and with his lips dancing along my ear, says, “But she’s far too obedient for my liking, and like every other woman, her curves aren’t the ones I want in my hands. She doesn’t rub her wrist when she’s nervous. Her hair isn’t wild. She doesn’t have a freckle on her left cheek, just beside her nose that I love to look at. And her lips don’t tilt up along the right side when I talk.”

