EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT
Just like Sherlock Holmes, local woman Anita Phillips has a mind palace.
It’s her way of escaping the tedium of the every day and gives her something to look forward to come bedtime.
It’s alleged Emily used to read naughty novels to get her fix but has since found the formula of a dominate rich man falling in love with a hapless virgin a little boring and on the nose.
One good thing about these novels, however, is that they’re all written by women who know there’s nothing quite like the thrill of sexual tension.
Meaning that it takes at least several chapters for the lead characters to make the jump from smouldering back and forth interactions to cavorting in the bedroom.
Unfortunately for Emily, the piece of saucy imagery she’s collected from today’s train trip is unravelling a little too fast for her liking – as in, her brain has skipped the foreplay and gone straight to business within minutes of her head hitting the pillow.
Watching in her mind as she passionately locks lips with the hot stranger, Emily forces herself to rewind back to the beginning, and interject some steamy conversation and sexual tension before segueing back to the lovemaking scene.
Only now that she’s made the leap, Emily has trouble starting over as her brain is now desperately searching for a hit of dopamine again.
Huffing as she rolls over and stares blankly at the wall, Emily gives up on storytelling and lets herself indulge herself in the unsatisfying fantasy scene before falling asleep feeling a little deflated.
More to come.
