Concrete Playground

Although she was rather fond of the visually stimulating and sensuously heightening colours of a dance floor, Eloise knew that a library — not a discotheque — was where she felt most at home on a Friday night. Tonight however she found herself distracted by that buffoon who was making a ruckus of the usually still and quite library. He'd approached her earlier in the evening to joke about some mechanic's exam he was preparing to flunk but she wasn’t impressed and the sparks of electricity that shot through her body when he touched her shoulder were still rippling through her, adding to her annoyance. There was something about his big, strong ...

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