A footstep in the hallway. My husband stirred.

“One of the cats?” I asked.

“No, it sounded human…”

He got out of bed. The door opened around his silhouette and closed.

A while later I heard dragging steps. Something undressed, slowly, as if it needed to remove an extra layer.

Christina Nordlander was born in 1982. Most of her creations belong in the dark or the dusk. Support her Patreon.