登入I slide my hand between my thighs and my fingers trace along the outer lips of my pussy and even that light contact makes my breath catch because I’m more swollen than I expected, still sensitive from the motorcycle and the lecture hall and the four days of him sitting in that booth looking at me like I’m something he plans to eat.
The wetness coats my fingertips immediately and I hear his breathing shift above me.
“Open yourself up. Use two fingers to spread yourself apart so I can see how wet you are.”
My face burns but my fingers obey and I part myself open and the cool air against the exposed heat of me makes my hips twitch forward, and he makes this low sound in the back of his throat that tells me he likes what he’s looking at.
“Now find your clit. One finger. Circle it slow – I mean slow, Ivy. Like you’ve got all night. Because you do.”
I press one fingertip against my clit and the contact sends a jolt through me that makes my stomach clench, and I start circling the way he said – slow, dragging the pad of my finger around it in wide loops that spread the wetness and build this deep, rolling ache that pulses outward from the center every time I complete a pass.
“Tighter circles. Stay on the left side – that’s where you’re most sensitive, I watched your body jerk when I touched you there in the lecture hall. Press harder.”
He’s right. The left side makes my thigh twitch and my breath stutter and I didn’t know that about myself until he told me, and the fact that he mapped my body from one encounter in a classroom and is now feeding that information back to me while I touch myself on my knees in front of him is so psychologically overwhelming that I feel my walls clench around nothing.
“Good. Now slide two fingers inside – slow, all the way to the knuckle. Curl them toward your belly button and keep your thumb on your clit.”
I sink two fingers into myself and my mouth falls open at the stretch and the wet sound it makes in the quiet room, and I curl them forward until I feel that spongy spot that he found in the lecture hall, the one that made me almost scream, and my thumb finds my clit again and starts circling while my fingers press against that spot from the inside and the dual sensation makes my hips rock forward into my own hand.
“There it is. I can see your legs shaking – that means you found it. Stay on that spot. Pump your fingers in and out, slow, and press into it every time you push back in.”
I follow his voice and each slow thrust of my own fingers hits that spot and sends a spike of pleasure through my abdomen that makes my free hand grip my thigh for balance, and he watches every movement with his head tilted slightly to one side, cataloguing my reactions the way he catalogues everything, learning me through watching me learn myself.
“Faster. Speed up your thumb but keep your fingers at the same pace – I want you feeling two different rhythms at the same time.”
I speed up my thumb while keeping my fingers slow and deep and the mismatched rhythms scramble something in my brain that makes my back arch and my mouth open on a moan I don’t bother trying to contain because at this point he’s heard worse.
“Stop.”
My hand freezes between my legs and my inner walls clench around my own fingers and every muscle in my body screams at me to keep going but he said stop so I stop, trembling on the carpet with my thighs slick and my bottom lip caught between my teeth and the pressure inside me coiling tighter with nowhere to go.
He lets ten seconds pass. I count them because the silence is unbearable and counting gives me something to do besides beg.
“Pull your fingers out. Just your thumb on your clit now. Featherlight – barely touching. Just enough that you can feel it.”
I withdraw my fingers and the emptiness makes me whimper, and my thumb ghosts over my clit so lightly that it’s almost worse than not touching at all because I can feel how close I am and the barely-there pressure is keeping me pinned right at the edge without letting me tip over and my legs are shaking so badly my knees are sliding apart on the carpet.
“Now three fingers. Push them in hard and fast and don’t stop until I tell you.”
I push three fingers into myself and the stretch makes me gasp and my hips buck forward and I start pumping them hard the way he said, my palm hitting my clit with every thrust, and the wet obscene sound of it fills the room and he hasn’t moved, hasn’t uncrossed his arms, hasn’t touched himself even though I can see him straining against his jeans, and his restraint while I fall apart is the most erotic thing I’ve ever experienced.
“Look at me when you cum.”
I open my eyes – I didn’t realize I’d closed them – and I look up at him from my knees with my hand buried between my legs and my lips parted and my cheeks wet with tears I don’t remember crying, and his eyes lock onto mine and he nods once and the permission crashes through me like something breaking, and I cum so hard my knees slide apart on the carpet and my back arches.
I can feel myself clenching around my own fingers in waves that pulse outward through my whole body and I keep my eyes on his the entire time because he told me to and my body doesn’t know how to disobey him anymore and I’m not sure I want it to learn.
He crouches down and wipes the tears from under my eye the same way he wiped my mouth clean that first night.
His lips brush my forehead, and it is so disorienting that I almost miss what he says.
“Good girl.”
He stands and walks out of my room, and the door clicks shut behind him so softly it barely makes a sound.
I sit on the carpet with my hand still wet and my heart hammering and those two words sitting in my chest like embers, and I pull the covers over myself and press my face into the pillow and whisper it into the dark just to hear how it sounds in my own voice.
Good girl.
I hate how much it does to me. I hate that I’m already wet again.
“I wanted to ask about the syllabus,” I say, which is a lie so transparent that we both know it’s a lie but the fiction of it gives us both something to stand on.He doesn’t look up.His pen continues its path across the paper and I stand in his doorway feeling entirely out of my depth, and the silence between us is different from the silence in the classroom – like the air in the room has thickened around the fact that we’re alone and the door is open and his cologne smells like woodsmoke and something darker that I can feel settling into my clothes the longer I stand here.“The syllabus is on the course portal, Ms. Cross. Is there anything else?”His voice is even and professional and completely devoid of anything I could point to as inappropriate, and that’s what makes it so devastating – the total control, the refusal to give me anything to react to, the way he keeps his eyes on his papers like I’m not worth the effort of looking up, which makes me want to do something so drastic
The underwear is gone and I can still smell him on my fingers when I brush my teeth, and I’m thinking about golden eyes and growling walls and stolen fabric while I walk into Advanced Literature ten minutes early like the overachieving tragedy that I am.The classroom is a small amphitheater – tiered seating, the kind of room that smells like old paper and academic self-importance – and I take a seat in the third row and open my textbook and tell myself that this is a class about literature and nothing else.My stepfather, Dominic Voss, walks in at exactly 9 AM and the room rearranges itself around him.He’s wearing a charcoal suit that fits him like an apology for every ill-fitting suit that has ever existed, and his glasses sit low on the bridge of his nose in a way that makes him look like he’s perpetually evaluating whether you’re worth looking at over the rims, and the answer for most people appears to be no.He sets his briefcase on the desk with the kind of precise, unhurried m
I’ve been standing in the shower for twenty-two minutes trying to wash the feeling of his voice off my skin, which is not how water works but my body is still vibrating at a frequency that Knox Voss set two hours ago and no amount of hot water is going to reset whatever he rewired in my nervous system tonight.I wrap a towel around myself and step into the hallway, and Knox’s bedroom door is open.It’s never open at this hour. He keeps it shut the same way I keep mine shut – a boundary that exists more in theory than in practice but that we both maintain for the sake of the fiction that we’re normal people living under the same roof.But tonight the light from his bedside lamp spills into the hallway in a warm stripe that crosses my bare feet, and I can see him sitting on the edge of his bed with his elbows on his knees like he’s been waiting.He looks up and sees me in my towel with my hair dripping and water beading on my collarbone, and something shifts in his face that goes past w
I slide my hand between my thighs and my fingers trace along the outer lips of my pussy and even that light contact makes my breath catch because I’m more swollen than I expected, still sensitive from the motorcycle and the lecture hall and the four days of him sitting in that booth looking at me like I’m something he plans to eat.The wetness coats my fingertips immediately and I hear his breathing shift above me.“Open yourself up. Use two fingers to spread yourself apart so I can see how wet you are.”My face burns but my fingers obey and I part myself open and the cool air against the exposed heat of me makes my hips twitch forward, and he makes this low sound in the back of his throat that tells me he likes what he’s looking at.“Now find your clit. One finger. Circle it slow – I mean slow, Ivy. Like you’ve got all night. Because you do.”I press one fingertip against my clit and the contact sends a jolt through me that makes my stomach clench, and I start circling the way he sai
Knox Voss has been sitting in the corner booth of The Grind House for four days straight and he has never once ordered a drink.My manager, Beth, has mentioned it twice – once to me specifically, with the kind of careful look that says I’m not going to ask but I’m definitely going to ask – and once to the other barista, Leah, who just shrugged and said “at least he’s hot” like that’s a valid substitute for paying rent on a table during peak hours. He sits in the same spot every time, leather jacket draped over the back of the booth, legs stretched out under the table, and he watches me work with those grey eyes that haven’t gotten less intense in the four days since he made me cum on his motorcycle on the side of a public road.I’m getting better at pretending I don’t feel his gaze on me. I’m not getting better at not being affected by it, but the pretending part has improved significantly, and right now that’s the best I can offer.My childhood friend, Theo Gallagher, shows up at 3 P
IVY’S POVI didn’t sleep after the growl.That low, vibrating sound sat in my chest for the rest of the night. I don’t know what it was. I don’t know why the sound of it made me press my thighs together instead of reaching for my phone to call someone.My mom slides a plate of toast across the counter on her way out the door and tucks a strand of hair behind my ear and says “Love you, baby, you look tired” and I say “Love you too, Mom” and eat her breakfast with Knox’s taste still in my throat and the guilt sitting in my stomach heavier than the food.I’m still thinking about it when Knox appears in the driveway, sitting on that bike with a helmet in his hand.I am not getting on that motorcycle.This is what I tell myself while I stand in the driveway with my backpack over one shoulder and my car keys in my hand and my stepbrother sitting on a matte-black bike that looks like it was designed specifically to ruin the lives of women with poor decision-making skills.He’s holding a helm







