Chapter: CHAPTER 161 - WORTH ITThe big bedroom is where they take all of me at once. Knox lies back on the wide bed and pulls me down over him, and I sink onto his cock, something I've done a hundred times, my hands flat on his chest, but I know what the big bed is for tonight before anyone says it, because it's the only one wide enough to hold all three of us at once.Dominic kneels behind me and I feel his slick fingers press between my ass cheeks, circling, pushing one finger into my rectum slowly while Knox holds still inside me and watches my face for the second it turns from too much into want."Breathe out," Dominic says against my spine, working a second finger in, stretching me open until I shake. "That's it. You know how to take us. Down on Knox and back onto me, let me in.""Dominic – " My whole body is strung tight between the two points of them, Knox filling me in front and Dominic opening me behind.Knox's hands come up to hold my face and make me look at him."Eyes on me," Knox says. "Let him in. You
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Chapter: CHAPTER 160 - TEAMWORKHe drags the head of his cock through me, slick with everything Knox left, and he pushes in slowly, filling me by degrees until he's seated all the way and we both go still at the feel of it. "I'm done telling myself that."He fucks me deep, propped on his forearms so his face stays close to mine, and it reminds me how different he is from Knox. The rhythm and patience, the grind of him hitting the same spot over and over until I'm clawing at his back. Knox comes to the doorway and leans there and watches, getting hard again just watching, and Dominic reaches up without looking and finds the amber mark on my inner thigh with his thumb, and he presses it until the mark detonates and I sob."There it is," Dominic says against my jaw, hips never breaking their deep rhythm. "Squeeze me when it hits. Let me feel it."I do. I clench around him in waves, and he fucks me right through it and keeps going, drawing it out so long the pleasure tips into something almost too much, my nails raking
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Chapter: CHAPTER 159 - DOUBLE TROUBLEKnox says it by reading me off the bond. "Her mark's going crazy.""I know." Dominic pulls back just enough to speak, his mouth shining as his fingers still work deep. "Cum on my tongue now, don't hold it."I feel my pussy clenching around his fingers as I cum exactly where he directed, and Knox's hands bear down on my hipbones to keep me flat while Dominic licks me through every pulse of it and doesn't stop until I'm pushing weakly at his head.I finally settle a bit, and Dominic straightens up and wipes his mouth with the back of his hand as he looks at Knox over my spread, trembling body."Next place," Knox says.Knox carries me with one arm under my knees and one under my back, my cheek against his bare chest where I can hear his heart going hard and steady, and Dominic follows, shedding his shirt on the way, and the second we clear the kitchen, the hardwood opens up in front of the dead fireplace of the living room."Right here," he says, kneeling behind me. "Where I marked the f
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Chapter: CHAPTER 158 - ALL GOODI'm elbow-deep in a pour-over when I read the message, and I thumb out two words with one hand because he’s easy not to think too hard about, and it feels like his messages never ask for anything from me.Me: all goodHe doesn't push. Three dots come and go without resolving into anything, and the mini exchange slides off my day without leaving a mark, because I have other things to think of.The scouts parked wrong by the bridge are apparently still there, and I have apparently been actively trying on dresses in a house with a rotted foundation while planning a wedding to a man who is not what she thinks he is.So yeah, Ryan Parker's two-word check-in doesn't even make the list. It settles into the margins of all that, and I don't give it a second thought because the days we have left are running out, and we all know it, even if nobody has said the number.Theo keeps texting from numbers I don't save, and Viktor's clock is down to its last turns, close enough now that Knox has stoppe
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Chapter: CHAPTER 157 – FOAM HEARTSI do as he says.My fingers slide up through the wet and circle the aching knot at the top, and my hips buck forward off the door before I can stop them. Down the row, his arm comes off the back of the bench, his elbow finds the table, and he leans in an inch. That’s the only tell that he feels what I feel."Don't go inside yet," he says. "That's it. Again.""Please – ""Wait, Ivy." The command is soft and absolute, and my entire body folds around it. "You cum when I say. Just keep your eyes on me through that window, or I’ll hang up, and you’ll come back out here like that."I swallow my complaints and keep my eyes on him as I work myself exactly as he tells me. I go in tight circles, and then I push two fingers up inside while the heel of my hand grinds the rest of my pussy, and the combination makes both marks go live."Faster," he says. "You're close. I can feel it. So don't you dare slow down. Just keep going with your eyes on me."I keep my eyes on him.The buzzing light and the
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Chapter: CHAPTER 156 – RUSHIVY’S POVThe two o'clock rush at The Grind House is something I've started to love these days.It's a Tuesday. Tuesdays are slow and then not slow in a wave that breaks around one forty-five as the lunch stragglers and the laptop crowd all decide at once that they need caffeine.I work the bar alone because Marco times his break around his greatest comforts. Basically, he leaves me with the worst of it on purpose, and I let him because the noise is good for me. Mr. Abe is at the end of the counter waiting on his flat white, same as every day, telling me about his daughter in L.A. again. I hear that story every afternoon, but I always nod at the right moments as I pull his shot cleanly.A kid knocks a biscotti jar with his elbow, and his mother apologizes twice. The register drawer sticks and I hip it shut. Nobody in here wants anything from me that I can't make with my hands in under ninety seconds, and after the week I've had, after seven days of reading every room before I walk int
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Chapter: STORY 73 – THE ROOMMATE THAT SWINGS MY WAY (IV)He pulls out of me, and the sudden emptiness pulls a whine from my throat, and then he's folding the three of us into something new. He lies back on the bed and draws me down over him, my spine against his chest, and lifts my top leg open, and Chloe comes up kneeling between all our legs where her hands can reach the both of us. Luke guides himself back into me from behind at this fresh angle, and the shift of it presses him somewhere deeper, somewhere that rolls my head back onto his shoulder – and Chloe leans in and puts her mouth back on my clit while he's still buried in me.The two things stack on top of each other and I come apart at every seam I have. He grinds deep and slow because the angle won't let him do more than roll his hips, while Chloe's tongue works flat and quick against my clit, her hand braced on my open thigh to keep me spread for the both of them. I feel her chin bump against the place where he vanishes into me, feel the tip of her tongue slide down to taste the
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Chapter: STORY 73 – THE ROOMMATE THAT SWINGS MY WAY (III)"Luke." Chloe lifts off just enough to speak, her mouth and chin shining in the light. "Don't go giving away my secrets." And then she's back on me before I can catch a breath, her tongue flat and merciless now, and the picture of it arrives whole in my head – the two of them lying on the far side of my wall, mapping me out loud between them – and that's the thing that finally drags me over the edge.I cum against Chloe's mouth with her fingers still buried inside me and Luke's teeth closing on the curve of my neck, and I'm loud this time, louder than she has ever been through the plaster, my thighs snapping shut around her head until Luke's hand eases one of them gently back open. Nobody tells me to be quiet. Chloe rides every wave of it with me, gentling her mouth as I start to twitch away from her, pressing one last soft kiss to the inside of my thigh when I finally go slack beneath her.She crawls back up my body and kisses me, and I taste myself on her mouth – bright and warm and
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Chapter: STORY 73 – THE ROOMMATE THAT SWINGS MY WAY (II)My hand is on it before the choice feels like mine. I push it open, step in, turn, press it shut – and the latch catches with a small click that drops the whole way down through me and lands between my legs.When I turn back, I see that Chloe is holding her hand out, and it's her hand I take.She draws me down onto the edge of the bed, and she doesn't kiss me yet. Her fingers come to the side of my face first, tucking my hair back, her thumb at my jaw, turning me into the lamplight so she can look."Hi," she says, soft."Hi." Barely.Then she kisses me. Softer than I let myself imagine on the nights I refused to imagine it, warm, taking her time, and under it a trace of salt that I know is Luke, and the knowing lands low and hot. She reads my mouth open, her bottom lip catching mine and dragging, her hand sliding into the hair at my nape to hold me where she wants me. A sound leaves me I've never made with anyone awake to hear it. I feel her smile against my lips. She licks into the s
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Chapter: STORY 73 – THE ROOMMATE THAT SWINGS MY WAY (I)The wall behind my headboard is thin enough that I know the sound before I'm fully awake. Chloe's bed is knocking against the plaster on the other side with a slow rhythm, and under it, her breathing is steady but broken.I've been hearing it all semester. Every time, I tell myself I'll put in my earphones and let them have their privacy, but instead, my hand slides under the waistband of my shorts.It’s past midnight, and Luke is over again. I hear the low rumble of him saying something, then Chloe's laugh cutting off into a gasp, and my own hips shift against my palm before I've decided anything. My two fingers are already slick and moving in a steady rhythm because my body started without me the second the headboard found its pace.I've stopped pretending this is about Luke.He’s simply the random boyfriend I've met in the kitchen maybe nine times, who nods at me over cereal and calls me "the roommate" with a grin. Chloe, on the other hand, is someone I know. Someone I’ve lived wit
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Chapter: STORY 72 – THE SEXTING SPIRAL (VI)I cum hard around him with my face dropping to the pillow and his name breaking out of me, loud this time, and he lets me be as loud as I want, fucking me through it with his hand splayed warm over my throat and his mouth at my ear telling me how good I am, how long he's wanted this, how he's not close to finished with me.And he isn't.He pulls me up off the bed, both of us unsteady, and walks me the two steps to the wall and lifts one of my legs over his arm and pushes back into me with my shoulders against the cool plaster, and this is the one I described at my desk in so much detail that feeling it actually happen blurs the line clean away. What I imagined all afternoon and what's happening to me right now stop being two separate things. His forehead drops to mine. His hips drive up into me. My shoulders drag against the wall with every stroke but I don't care. I hook my leg higher and pull him deeper, causing him to groan into my mouth."This is the one that made me leave my desk
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Chapter: STORY 72 – THE SEXTING SPIRAL (V)The first stroke pulls a sound out of both of us at the same time. He sinks in slowly, inch by inch, watching my face the whole way, and bottoms out and holds there, buried, and lets me feel every bit of him before he moves a muscle."Been thinking about this since the glass room," he says, starting to roll his hips, deep and unhurried. "Since I had two fingers in you at that table and you had to cough to cover it. Since you clenched around my hand in front of Marcus and I had to walk out of that meeting and not finish.""You nearly made me cum in front of everyone –""I know. I felt it." He drives in deep and grinds and my eyes flutter. "That's why lasting won't be my problem tonight. I already took the edge off twice today. Both times because of you. This time I get to go as long as I want, and I want to go a very long time."He fucks me slow and deep on the edge of the bed, my legs hooked over his arms, and then his hand slides up my chest and his fingers close gently around my thr
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Chapter: EPILOGUENAOMI’S POVMonths later, we’re at the apartment. I'm at the kitchen table with my laptop open and a coffee going cold, because every coffee goes cold in this apartment – a law of physics specific to this kitchen that no hot drink has ever survived. Our daughter, Orion has been asleep in the next room, which means I have approximately ten minutes before the grey eyes open and the Maddox jaw opens wider, because Orion Maddox communicates hunger with the volume of a fire alarm and the subtlety of her father.The morning is ordinary. That's what I can't get over. After everything, what's left is a truly random Tuesday. A woman at a table with cold coffee and a sleeping baby and a finished manuscript and a man in the next room murmuring to his daughter in the low, warm voice because he’s talking to someone who can't answer yet but is listening with full-body attention since every sound is new.I open my phone and go to the camera roll, and I look at the birth photo that the nurse took at
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Chapter: FIFTY-SIX – SETTLEDRHYS’ POVShe's asleep on the couch the same way she has been lately, with one hand hanging and the other on the bump.She calls it your daughter's apartment when she's talking to me and calls it the situation when she's on the phone with Sienna. An hour ago, she called it the reason I can't see my feet while reaching for something on the second shelf, something she could reach four months ago.It's 9 PM. Her laptop is open beside her, the manuscript glowing on the screen. New pages. Good ones. Pages that sound like her again. Her mouth is slightly open, her hair across her face, and the hand on the belly is resting over the spot where the baby kicks hardest – positioned there even in sleep.I'm in the kitchen holding a cup coffee I'm not drinking. It has probably gone cold based on the amount of time I’ve been focused elsewhere, but I still can’t stop myself from watching her sleep as I think about the things I don't say out loud.Cole called this morning. Twenty minutes between prac
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Chapter: FIFTY-FIVE – THAT’S YOUWe talk more for a bit, then we hang up, and the laptop closes. Rhys sits, looking at the dark screen, his jaw relaxed for the first time in weeks."He knew all along," he says."He's Richard.""He knew about it, but he sat on it.""Because he's Richard."We sit in the quiet that follows a detonation that turned out to be smaller than expected – the crisis reduced to three words and a man whose greatest act of love was choosing not to use the information he had.The day moves on, and it soon turns into weeks, and as the weeks keep passing, the belly keeps growing. The tightness across my hips when I sit too long sets in. The tenderness that makes stomach-sleeping impossible becomes more frequent. The afternoon exhaustion that doesn't respond to the decaf I've switched to – the decaf being a betrayal I'm not ready to discuss – becomes an instinct. And then the careful distance continues.I start handing him my phone automatically, because sometimes explaining things feels like work, bu
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Chapter: FIFTY-FOUR – RESEARCHWeeks pass. My belly grows. My jeans stop buttoning around week six, and I switch to his sweatpants, which is its own kind of intimacy – wearing his clothes while not touching his body, the cedar-smelling fabric holding me loosely and warmly the way his arms used to.A letter arrives on a Wednesday. No return address, same handwriting as the card from before – the one we believe came from the woman who stood on the sidewalk facing our windows. This one is shorter. I’m sorry if I caused any trouble. I didn’t mean to make things hard for you. I just wanted you to know someone cares.Rhys reads it at the counter with his coffee going cold. His jaw does the thing. He puts it down and calls Patricia. The call lasts four minutes, and those four minutes produce a restraining order filing that she processes that afternoon.The letter goes in a folder. The folder goes in a drawer. The woman has a legal document delivered to the address Patricia traced, and the stay-away becomes enforceable rat
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Chapter: FIFTY-THREE – THE DISHESRhys stirs, and without opening his eyes, his hand finds mine on my stomach and rests on top of it, and the weight of his palm over mine is enough. It’s everything right now.We land, get our bags, and get in a car. The highway passes in silence until the bridge appears, then we turn onto our street, the parking structure, the elevator, the hallway, and the door.He unlocks it. Pushes it open.The apartment is exactly as we left it – his laptop on the table with the spreadsheet, mine beside it with the dead manuscript, the fan’s card face-down on the counter, the blue box of pasta in the cabinet.I stand in the doorway and look at the apartment, and the apartment holds still while I look, the same counter and the same floor and the same quiet that has always lived here when we’re both inside it.Rhys puts the bags down. Opens the fridge. Stares at it. Closes it. The old habit surviving everything, the checking that was never about the food. This time I almost smile.“We should eat,” h
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Chapter: FIFTY-TWO – SIGN IT“We need to talk,” I say.“Come in.”“We’ll do this in the hallway.”He steps out and closes the door behind him.“You have two options,” I say. “You tell your parents we broke up. You can make up whatever you want, but tell them after they leave Korea. Then you go home and never contact me again.”“And if I don’t?”“Then we go with option two,” Rhys says from behind me in a low voice. “The source file on your laptop, including the emails with Priya and the metadata showing you leaked the Victoria contract. All of it goes to Richard’s legal team, and his legal team can take it from a file to a courtroom in under a month.”Caleb’s jaw tightens.“You manipulated the leak to suppress endorsement deals that funded a nonprofit serving minors,” Rhys says. “A prosecutor would call that conspiracy to defraud. My father’s lawyers would call it Tuesday. And I wonder what your parents would say about everything you’ve done”“You punched me on a public sidewalk. There are witnesses.”“There are.”
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