Simply removing the hood from Hope’s face made her skin tingle. It wasn’t the temperature. It was the abrupt change in sensation on her creamy skin. She had spent hours enclosed within. The built-up heat and perspiration were wicked away very slowly by her hood, and suddenly very quickly when she was exposed to the air of Phantom’s limousine. The executive sat across from her, grinning like a cat.
It didn’t matter that her invention - co-opted by Phantom and her engineers - was designed to ‘breathe’ and was made for long-term wear. It was hot and stuffy and downright claustrophobic. If she hadn’t bee