LOGINFive months ago Jace Holden caught me with my hand in my underwear in a wine cellar at our parents’ engagement party.
He watched me finish. Talked me through it. Called me stepsister while I came. I went back to college and touched myself to the memory of his voice every night for five months. Now it’s winter break. Our parents left an hour ago. I’m standing in his kitchen pretending I’m not shaking. He walks in behind me while I’m pouring water. His chest hits my back and his hands land on the counter on either side of me, caging me in. I go rigid. “Missed you, princess.” “Don’t call me that.” “You’re trembling.” His mouth touches the back of my neck. Not a kiss. Just his lips resting there. Warm. “You’ve been trembling since you walked in.” “Get off me, Jace.” His hand slides down my stomach. Under the waistband of my shorts. Past my underwear. His fingers find me and I jerk forward into the counter. A sound comes out of me I’ve never made in front of another person. He groans against my neck. “Soaked. You’re soaked through your underwear and you haven’t been here an hour.” He groans against my neck. “Soaked. You’re soaked through your underwear and you haven’t been here an hour.” His fingers are thick. Rougher than mine. He moves them like he already knows my body better than I do, and the worst part is he’s right. “Stop.” I grab his wrist with both hands. Pull. He doesn’t budge. His arm is concrete. “Jace, stop, we can’t, you’re my stepbrother.” “Say that again.” His middle finger pushes inside me and my knees buckle. He catches me with his other arm around my waist. “Say stepbrother again while you’re clenching around my finger.” I bite my lip so hard I taste copper. Two fingers now. Curling. Finding the spot that makes my vision swim. I shove backward with my hips, trying to throw him off. All it does is grind my ass against him. He’s hard. So hard I can trace the shape of him through his sweats against my lower back. “Feel that?” He pushes his hips forward and the pressure makes my stomach drop. “That’s what your voice did to me in that cellar. Five months of this. Five months of jerking off to the sound of my stepsister cumming.” “You’re sick.” “And you’re riding my hand.” I am. My hips are moving on their own. Rocking into his fingers while I try to pull his wrist away. Failing at both. My body and my brain are in two different wars and my body is winning. His thumb finds my clit and presses hard. Circles. Not gentle. Not exploring. He knows exactly where it is and he’s grinding it. “Jace, please.” My voice cracks. I don’t know if I’m begging him to stop or keep going and that scares me more than his fingers do. He adds a third finger. The stretch burns and I gasp and my forehead drops to the cold counter and my hips push back for more and I hate myself for it. “That’s it.” His breath is hot on my ear. “Stop pretending. Stop fighting. You came to this house because you wanted my hands on you again.” “I came because my mom asked me to.” “You came because you’ve been fucking yourself to my voice for five months and your own fingers stopped being enough.” I want to deny it. I want to turn around and slap him and drive back to campus. But his fingers curl and his thumb grinds and my whole body locks up. “Cum for me.” He bites the side of my neck. Hard. Not a love bite. Teeth sinking in. “Cum on your stepbrother’s hand in the kitchen like a desperate little slut.” I cum so hard the glass of water flies off the counter. My body convulses against him, my thighs trapping his hand, a sound tearing out of me that’s animal and broken. He works me through it. Every pulse. Every clench. His fingers don’t slow down, don’t soften. He milks the orgasm out of me until I’m twitching and whimpering and my legs have stopped working. Before the last wave finishes he pulls his fingers out. I gasp at the loss. He spins me around and I see his face up close for the first time. His pupils are blown so wide his gray eyes look black. He holds his hand up. Three fingers. Shining wet. “Open your mouth.” “No.” He hooks his thumb on my chin. Pulls my jaw down. Slides his fingers into my mouth. I taste myself on him. Salt and musk and something shameful. “Suck,” he says. I suck. I don’t decide to. My mouth closes around his fingers and my tongue curls. I’m looking up at him while I clean myself off his hand. His expression is so dark it makes my stomach flip. He pulls his fingers out. Spits in my mouth. Slow. His eyes locked on mine. “Swallow.” I swallow and something in my chest caves in. Some wall I built five months ago that was never as strong as I pretended. I swallow. He picks me up. One arm under my knees, one behind my back. I weigh nothing to him. The ease of it is humiliating. I shove against his chest and kick and he doesn’t react at all. Like my resistance is a mild inconvenience. He carries me down the hall toward his bedroom. I know where he’s going. I know what’s coming. My fist connects with the side of his head. He doesn’t flinch. His hand squeezes my thigh hard enough to bruise. He drops me on his bed. The mattress bounces. I bounce with it. The air rushes out of my lungs. Before I can scramble he’s standing at the foot of the bed, unbuckling his belt. Not to use as a restraint. To get it out of the way. The look on his face is focused. Locked in. A decision already madeThe intense photography session lasted four hours, and I held every single pose he put me in with absolute stillness.Ezra moved around me with his camera, capturing countless angles I couldn.t see, murmuring praise whenever I achieved exactly what he truly deeply genuinely wanted from me.Each time he repositioned me, his hands were firm and decisive, moving my limbs exactly like I really was a doll without a will of my own."Chin up slightly. Eyes forward.Don't blink." I obeyed without question.There was something hypnotic about the process, about surrendering so completely to someone else's direction.My constantly restless mind went quiet in a way it rarely did in my everyday life.I wasn't thinking about bills or modeling auditions or anything at all. I was just being exactly what he made me.By the end, I was exhausted in a way that felt cleansing rather than draining.Ezra set down his camera and studied me with an expression I couldn't quite read. "You were extraordinary," h
The advertisement in the arts magazine caught my attention because it was so utterly strange and unlike anything else I had ever seen."Seeking models for living doll artistry project. Must be comfortable with elaborate makeup, wigs, and costume work.Full day sessions paid generously.Contact Ezra at the following number." I had been modeling for three years, mostly catalog work and the occasional runway show.But work had been slow lately, and my rent was due in two weeks.Living doll artistry sounded weird, but the pay quoted was more than I usually made in a month. So I called the number.Ezra's voice on the phone was deep and carefully measured.He explained that he was a photographer and artist who specialized in transforming models into hyper-realistic dolls through makeup, styling, and careful posing.His impressive work had been exhibited in galleries around the world and collected by museums of contemporary art."I.m currently looking for someone with very specific features,
Margot moved up the bed toward me slow, giving me every second to change my mind, and I didn't take a single one of them."Tell me if anything is too much," she said, settling alongside me, her hand coming to rest warm on my stomach, right on the soft part I'd spent years apologizing for.She looked at it like it was lovely."We go at whatever pace you want. There is no clock here. There's just you, and how good I'm going to make you feel."She kissed me then, finally, and it was nothing like I'd braced for.Soft, unhurried, her mouth learning mine while her hand stroked lazy circles on my belly.I made a small sound against her lips and she swallowed it like something precious, and the kiss went deeper, and I felt three years of armor start to come loose at the seams."There she is," Margot murmured against my mouth."Let me see you. Let me have all of it."She kissed her way down, taking her time, treating every inch of me like it deserved her full attention.The hollow of my throat
She had me change behind a folding screen into the things I'd brought, the lingerie I'd bought online at midnight and almost returned twice.My hands shook on the clasps.When I stepped out from behind the screen in deep blue lace, every old instinct screamed at me to cover up, to cross my arms over my stomach, to apologize for the parts of me that didn't match a magazine.Margot looked up from where she was adjusting a lamp, and whatever was on her face stopped all of that cold."Oh," she said, soft and low, like the breath had been knocked out of her."Tessa. Look at you."Heat rushed up my neck."You don't have to""I'm not saying anything I don't mean. I never do."She set the lamp down and came toward me slowly, her eyes moving over me with open, unhurried appreciation, and it was so different from my ex's flick-and-away glance that my eyes prickled."May I move you where I want you? I'll tell you everything before I touch you. You can stop me anytime, for any reason or no reason
I almost didn't get out of the car when I pulled up outside the studio.I sat in the lot for a full ten minutes with the engine off, staring at the frosted glass door with the gold lettering, talking myself into and out of it about six times.A boudoir shoot.The thing I'd bought myself as a gift after the divorce finalized, a way of saying my body was still mine and still worth looking at, and now that the day had come I wanted to drive home and pretend I'd never booked it.Forty-one years old and hiding in a parking lot like a teenager.The text came through right as my hand found the keys again. *Door's open whenever you're ready.No rush.Coffee's on. — Margot.*That was the thing that got me out of the car.The *no rush*.I went in.The studio inside was warm and low-lit, nothing like the cold clinical place I'd braced for.Exposed brick, soft lamps, a wall of windows with sheer curtains drawn across them filtering the afternoon into something golden.A wide bed dressed in cream
The luxurious private cabin at the back of the first-class section was something I never knew existed.It was surprisingly small but incredibly luxurious, with a proper comfortable bed, soft romantic lighting, and complete soundproofing according to a grinning Landon, who seemed extremely pleased and deeply amused with my completely shocked expression."This is insane," I said for what felt like the hundredth time that night."How is this even remotely legal?" "When you personally own the entire plane and the airline that operates it, a whole lot of things suddenly become perfectly legal." He closed and locked the door behind us."Now then, where were we?" He advanced on me slowly with predatory intent, and I found myself backing up until my knees hit the soft edge of the bed and I tumbled backward onto the soft mattress.He followed me down immediately, covering my body completely with his, kissing me with the same burning intensity as before."I was absolutely nowhere near done with
The words fall out of my mouth before I decide to say them, and what I just said is the most brutal truth of our entire relationship. He doesn’t respond for a long time. The ceiling fan clicks above us in a rhythm that sounds too steady for what just happened in this room. “Does that make me a w
They arrange me with the efficiency of men who have done this before, The coordination of it, the way they move around my body without speaking, tells me everything I need to know about how many women have been in this position before me. Ray lies down on the floor and pulls me on top of him, gu
Dante steps forward already unbuckling his belt, And Vincent grabs a fistful of my hair and pulls me upright on my knees so I’m facing Marcus because Vincent wants my husband to watch every expression that crosses my face. “On your hands and knees,” Dante says, pressing one rough palm between my
My husband owes seventy thousand dollars to men who don’t take IOUs. His solution is to offer me. All four of them. One night. Every hole. And he has to sit there and watch. I should say no. But Marcus stopped touching me in June, started coming home smelling like another woman in July, and has







