The Want Underneath

In a humid greenhouse at the end of a wilderness intensive, two co-instructors finally surrender to a week's worth of charged glances and deliberate almost-touches. Caleb weaponizes their shared survival manual as seduction, challenging Luna to dictate the chapter on "shared body heat" while he strips off his flannel and watches her refuse to flinch. What follows is playful, reverent, and electric, hands finding skin among scattered seed packets, until a mortified volunteer crashes through the door and leaves them breathless, laughing, and suddenly uncertain what they've started.