Anna Exciting Affection Chapter 1 Unofficial R: Better

But on a particularly damp Tuesday in October, fine stopped being enough.

She stiffened. “How did you —”

The man — tall, with dark curly hair escaping from a loose bun, wearing a faded denim jacket over a plain grey t-shirt — caught her staring and smiled. Not a polite, dismissive smile. A real one. The kind that crinkles the corners of his eyes and suggests he already knows something about you that you haven’t told anyone. anna exciting affection chapter 1 unofficial r better

She hits send before she can overthink it. Below her, the city keeps moving — traffic lights changing, strangers passing, lives colliding. But for the first time in years, Anna isn’t watching from behind glass. She’s standing at the edge of something exciting, something terrifying, something that might just be better than fine. But on a particularly damp Tuesday in October,