A/N Here is a companion piece to Deeper Into Temptation. It's an original poem, giving you a glimpse of the way Edward and Bella spend the week in New York. I loved writing it, it's based on my memories of that city. - I'm originally a NYC girl.

Music: You grew up riding the subways, up in Harlem down on Broadway... (from the song New York City Girl, by Odyssey. Look it up on YouTube, you won't be sorry.)

New York City Summer

Hot steel on steel smell of the subway,

I walk up, up

Outside, hot pavement, shimmering

Hard asphalt softens slightly under the blazing, melting rays

Of a mid-July heat wave

Up, up to our eyrie

Where we meet and meld

After

We stay up here, above the fray

Wrapped in cool crumpled white sheets

Where a too small fan lends just enough breeze for mere seconds and moves on its way

Billowing the curtains, exposing a sliver of New York blue sky

The smell of your sweat is spicy sexy sweet

Conjuring memories of our recent abandon

I yearn and

You reach for me again