Even that night when they made love, she couldn’t stop thinking of the other one. Him with the startling eyes, whose gaze she could only ever meet for a second before she had to look away.

She saw him standing there in front of them like a ghost, watching as they did their predictable dance. In the space of one breath, she felt a decision arise and pass, before her conscious mind could even weigh in with its pros and cons and rules and rights.

She turned her head away from her lover, smiled, and looked her ghost straight in the eye.