Smallara

“You smell so good. The scent is supposed to last three weeks so we will have to go back every couple weeks. Get you a bath and I can get…

Brie turned from Evan’s with an almost maternal delicacy, fingers cupping her like a delicate ornament. But Charity could feel the smug satisfaction in the way Brie’s thumb pressed just…

  The moment they were ushered into the styling suite, Charity felt the scale of her world swell again, everything glinted, echoed, towered. Gleaming tile stretched out like a glacial…

The glass doors sighed open with a gentle hiss, releasing a burst of cool, citrus-laced air into the afternoon sunlight. Charity flinched instinctively at the change in temperature, more out…

The clinic smelled like citrus disinfectant and vinyl. A hollow kind of clean. The kind that didn’t comfort but warned you instead. Evan bounced ahead, her hoodie sleeves pushed up…