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They make me get up. Each step towards them is a challenge, a shiver that runs down my spine. The room seems to breathe with me, each light, each reflection on the parquet floor amplifying my tension. My body is on alert, every fiber vibrating under their gaze.
“We'll start slowly,” Sasha said. Only one rule: no restraint… towards yourself.
Niko comes forward, and his perfume envelops me like an invisible caress. He touches my cheek with his fingertips, slowly, as if to gauge my reaction. My breath catches, my body tenses. My heart is beating too fast.
“Close your eyes,” Sasha whispers behind me.
I comply. His body presses lightly against mine, his hands brush my shoulders, moving down my arms with calculated slowness. A burning shiver runs through me and lodges in the pit of my stomach, irresistible, like an electric wave that sets me ablaze.
“Focus on what you feel,” Niko whispers in my ear. Don't think, feel.
My hands are shaking slightly. Fear and excitement mingle in an intoxicating mix. Each caress, each breath on my skin seems to awaken a part of me that I had never explored. I feel vulnerable and yet irresistibly attracted.
Sasha slides her hands under my hair, her fingers brushing the back of my neck with calculated precision, while Niko takes my wrists gently, just enough for me to feel his control and quiet power.
— Forget the world, Eva. It’s just you and us here, said Sasha. Surrender.
My body responds before my mind. Each contact makes me shiver, each breath on my skin triggers a heat that rises from my temples to my lower abdomen. I feel like I'm wavering between fear and desire, between restraint and abandonment.
They exchange a silent look and I understand that I am at the center of something larger, a game of power and seduction for which I was never prepared.
“Show us you dare,” Niko whispers.
Sasha moves gently down my back, her hands grazing the curve of my hips and back. My breathing becomes short, irregular. I feel my body opening in spite of myself, each caress awakening shivers that I didn't think I could feel.
— Every sensation is a step towards yourself, Eva, Sasha whispers. Every thrill, every hesitation, every desire… it all counts.
I close my eyes and tremble. Niko brushes his lips against my neck, a hot breath, a whisper that makes me shiver to the depths of myself.
“Now let go,” Sasha said, her voice a mixture of command and caress.
I feel my defenses giving way, my body tensing then relaxing, sensitive to each gesture. My scent, Niko's, Sasha's warmth, the leather against my thighs... Everything becomes intensely real. I'm trapped in their game and yet I don't want to escape.
They explore me methodically, my breasts rise under the influence of desire, each gesture is calibrated to wake him up, test my limits and make me discover sensations that I had never imagined.
— Your body is your mirror, Niko whispers. Listen to him. Respect him. Learn from him.
I shiver harder and harder. My breathing quickens. My hands clench on the sofa, but my body opens in spite of myself with each touch, with each whisper. A part of me still resists, but the rest surrenders with new strength.
“That’s good, Eva,” Sasha said, her hands moving down to the base of my thighs, brushing my bare skin exquisitely slowly. Each contact is a fire that rises within me, a delicious, unreal shock.
My stomach churns. I feel like I'm losing control, but I don't want to stop. Their presence is addictive, like a drug that I have never tasted and to which I am already addicted.
“We're going to go further,” Niko whispers, his voice warm and low, caressing my ear. Every limit you cross will be a victory.
I understand that it is not just a physical initiation. It is an initiation to myself, to my desires, to my fears, to my abandonment. I am crossing boundaries that I never imagined I would cross.
Sasha runs a hand over my stomach, brushing against my delicate skin, while Niko slides his fingers up my arm. Every touch is electric, every breath hot. My body arches slightly, instinctively seeking their warmth and attention.
“You’re ready to explore,” Sasha whispers against my ear. And every shiver, every tremor, every sensation... will make you more alive, more you.
And I feel, deep down, that I will never go back. I am ready to cross the line, to lose myself in order to better find myself, to completely abandon myself to this initiation which is only just beginning.
Lorenzo She's crying. Softly. Silently. Like she always cries. "I'm sorry," I say. "For what?" "For everything. For hurting you. For loving her. For still loving her." "Do you love me, you and me?" "Yes. But it's different." "I know. That's why it's complicated." We stay there, hand in hand, watching the rain against the window. Outside, the world continues. Inside, we're trying to rebuild something we broke ourselves. And in Portugal, there are my children growing up. And there's her. Always her. --- Béatrice Night. The twins are sleeping. The apartment is calm. I look at my phone. The draft is still there. The one I wrote a year ago. The one I never sent. "You were right. About everything." I reopen the message. I reread it. A year later, it's still relevant. I could send it. Now. Tonight. Tell her I'm sorry. That I think of her. That I wish things were different. But I don't. Because it's too early. Because it's too late. Because I don't know. My phone vibrate
BéatriceLisbon. The sun comes in through the wide-open window. The shouts of the twins in the living room. Alma wanting her bottle. Benjamim having once again managed to empty the pots and pans cupboard.One year. It goes by so fast. And so slowly at the same time.I prepare the bottles while listening to their babbling. Nine months. They are nine months old and already have strong personalities. Alma is calm, observant, like her father. Benjamim is a hurricane, like...Like me, I suppose.My phone vibrates. 10:03 a.m. Like every day.Lorenzo.I answer. I switch to video call."Hi.""Hi. Are they there?"I turn the camera towards the living room. Alma is in her bouncy chair, Benjamim in the middle of his pots and pans."Damn, Benjamim, you made a mess again," says Lorenzo laughing."He takes after you.""No, he takes after his mother who lets him do whatever he wants."We laugh. It's become our ritual. Ten minutes, every day. So he can see them grow up. So they can hear his voice. So
BéatriceI get up without making a sound. I go to the living room. I sit on the floor, back against the couch, like Aurélie a few hours earlier.I think back to that promise. The summer one. The one where I swore."I would never do something like that. Never."I believed it. At that moment, I really believed it. I thought those feelings would eventually pass. That I would meet someone. That everything would sort itself out.But feelings don't always pass. They settle in. They dig their hole. They become a habit, an addiction, a drug.Him. His laugh. The way he runs his hand through his hair. The way he says my name. Everything. Everything is etched into me.How do you stop loving? How do you extract someone from your skin?I open my phone. I look at the conversation with Aurélie. I scroll up. I see our messages from before. The jokes. The photos. The "I love you, my sister." Everything that was simple. Everything that became complicated.She's right.The thought imposes itself, clear,
AurélieThe silence. The void. The absence of everything."He kissed me," Béatrice continues. "And in that kiss, I felt years of waiting, years of shutting up, years of pretending. And I should have pushed him away. I should have told him no. I should have thought of you. But I thought of myself. For the first time, I thought of myself.""You're right," I say.My voice is calm. Too calm."What?""You're right. You thought of yourself. And that's exactly the problem. You thought of yourself without thinking of me. Without thinking about what it would do to me. Without thinking about our parents. Without thinking about anything other than your desire.""I...""Let me finish. You say you can't choose who you love. Maybe. Maybe that's true. But you can choose what you do with that love. You can choose to stay away. You can choose to protect your sister. You can choose not to go towards your sister's man. That, you can choose. And you didn't.""No. I didn't.""Why?""Because... because I'm
AurélieIt's 4:17 a.m. Seline is sleeping on the couch, curled up under a too-thin blanket. Me, I'm sitting in the dark, back against the hallway wall, phone in hand.I look at her message. "You are my sister. You always will be."My sister.That word that should protect. That bond that should be sacred. That thing we imagine indestructible until the day someone tramples it.I think back to that conversation. Two years ago. At my parents' house. Summer."You know, Béatrice, I'm really lucky with Lorenzo. I'm happy.""I know. It shows.""You too, one day, you'll find someone.""Maybe. In the meantime, I'm enjoying life.""Promise me something.""What?""Promise me you'll never meddle in my relationship. That you'll never try to... I don't know... take my place.""Aurélie, what kind of stupid question is that?""It's not stupid. I know stories. Sisters who... well, you know. Promise me.""I promise. You're my sister. I would never do something like that. Never."Never.I type. This time
LorenzoI don't answer. I can't. Because the answer is too complicated. Because the truth is, I want to be there for her too. But I can't. Not after seeing Aurélie's eyes."I have to go," I say."Okay.""I'll call you back.""Promise me you'll come back. Not for me. For the babies. They need their father.""I'll come back. I promise."I hang up. I stay there, in my car, staring at the darkness through the windshield. And I cry. Like a kid. Like a man who just lost everything without even realizing he was playing.AurélieSeline went to get food. I'm not hungry but she insisted. "You have to eat. To keep your strength up. To hold on."I'm alone in the living room. In the dark. I look at my phone.Messages. Lots. From my mother. From my father. From colleagues. From people who don't know. Who can't know.And one message from him."I'm sorry. I know it's not enough. But I'm sorry. I love you. I will always love you. No matter what happens."I read it. I read it again. I don't delete it.
DianeThen I tell her about Saturday night. About his call. About his car waiting outside my building. About the glass house on the heights, the moon, the deliberate and possessive slowness with which he… reclaimed what was his, marked his territory. I pass my hand over my blouse, where the mark is
DianeThe 10 AM bell rings, tearing through the monotony of economics class. A scraping of chairs, a murmur of voices, and the hallway fills with nervous, youthful energy. I gather my things with calculated slowness, letting the other students rush toward the exit. My gaze, like a magnet, immediate
LiamThe nightlight casts a trembling golden glow on the walls, like a slow breath. It dances along the curve of Mona’s hips, the hollow of her arched back, the beads of sweat sliding between her shoulder blades. I’m there, kneeling between her spread thighs, my fingers already buried in her damp h
DIANEThe air leaves my lungs. He's soaked. His t-shirt clings to his chest, revealing every taut muscle. Water streams down his face, over his parted lips. His eyes blaze with a dark, possessive, savage fury. It's the look I'd been waiting for. The one that sees me. Really sees me."You want to pl







