Fitting

She did everything right. Left the volatile ex, chose the safe man, built the quiet life. Ethan remembers her oat milk. He calls her mother on her birthday. He folds her dress mid-undressing so it won't wrinkle. He is, by every reasonable measure, a good boyfriend.He has also never once made her pulse change.When a plain beige bodysuit arrives in a brown paper box — ordered at 2 a.m. while Ethan slept with his back to her — she tells herself it's for him. A way to finally be seen. But when his best friend Cole shows up at the apartment on a Wednesday afternoon, she doesn't ask Cole to leave. She asks him to stay.What begins as a fitting becomes something far more dangerous: the first time she has ever been touched like she matters.The Fitting is a raw, unflinching exploration of desire, emotional starvation, and the lies women tell themselves in relationships that look perfect from the outside. This is Part One of a serialized story.For mature readers only. Contains explicit sexual content.