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urned candle on t-h=e-- nightstand. As h:e moves t!=hroug].))h the:; space, ad],+justing % t*o his te!:mpora)ry role _as careta!ker, something c]+atches his eye in :@;the b
e$droo`m: a piece o^
f delicate l %ingerie -^hang
# in\:g +^from th$*+e back !o?!#f a chair. He? knows he sh+:ou.ldn’\t, but], c
urio(sity t )\)ugs at h.im.
( He wonders how it wo*]uld` feel]=* against hi*s skin, what it would be:  li!-* ke` to slip/*) into s);%/omething ](so intimate/%, so different ;.
(, The thought_[\# linge;*rs longer than [[he expec%ts, ].(#gro$@win:g into !temptati% on.