LOGINAVERY POV
The next morning felt like walking through a fever dream. Mom was downstairs making coffee, humming some old song like nothing in the world was wrong. Marcus had already left for an early meeting, but the ache between my legs and the faint bruises on my hips reminded me exactly how real last night had been. His cum had still been leaking out of me when I’d finally fallen asleep. I spent the whole day on edge—jumpy every time Mom spoke to me, blushing at nothing. By evening I was a mess of nerves and leftover arousal. When Marcus finally got home, our eyes met across the dinner table and the heat in his gaze made my thighs clench under my skirt. After dinner Mom announced she was taking a long bath and then turning in early—she had a headache. She kissed Marcus on the cheek, told me goodnight, and disappeared upstairs. The second her bedroom door clicked shut, Marcus looked at me. “Shower. Five minutes. My bathroom.” His voice was low, commanding. I didn’t argue. I waited until I heard the bathwater running in Mom’s bathroom, then slipped quietly down the hall to the master suite. Marcus was already there, door locked behind us the moment I stepped inside. Steam was starting to fill the large walk-in shower. He didn’t waste time with words. He pulled my clothes off with rough, efficient hands until I stood completely naked in front of him. “Get in,” he ordered. I stepped under the hot spray, heart racing. Marcus stripped quickly and joined me, his body crowding mine against the tiled wall. Water cascaded over both of us as he kissed me hard, tongue invading my mouth while his hands roamed possessively over my breasts and ass. He pulled back just enough to reach for something on the built-in shelf I hadn’t noticed before—two small silver nipple clamps connected by a delicate chain, and a sleek pink toy I recognized instantly: a rose clit sucker. My breath hitched. Marcus held them up, water dripping from the metal. His eyes were dark, dangerous. “Tonight you’re going to be a good girl and count for me, Avery. Every single one. If you lose count, we start over. Understand?” I nodded quickly, already trembling with anticipation and fear. Mom was just down the hall. The risk made everything sharper, hotter. He turned me so my back pressed to his chest, the spray hitting my front. One large hand cupped my left breast, rolling the nipple until it peaked hard. Then he attached the first clamp. The sharp bite of pain made me gasp. “One,” I whispered immediately. “Good girl.” He did the same to the right nipple. The chain swung between them, tugging lightly with every breath. “Two.” The pain was intense but delicious, sending sparks straight to my clit. Marcus kissed the side of my neck, then reached for the rose. He turned it on—low at first—and pressed the soft silicone mouth directly over my swollen clit. The instant suction made my knees buckle. I moaned loudly before I could stop myself. “Quiet,” he growled against my ear, free hand coming up to cover my mouth. “Or I’ll make this much harder for you. Now count.” He clicked the rose up to a higher setting. The intense, rhythmic pulsing against my clit was overwhelming. Combined with the constant bite of the nipple clamps, pleasure and pain blurred together until I couldn’t think straight. “Three… four… five…” I panted against his palm, voice muffled. Marcus didn’t let up. He held the rose firmly in place, grinding it in slow circles while the hot water pounded over us. My hips jerked helplessly, chasing the suction. The chain between my nipples tugged with every twitch, sending fresh jolts of pain through my breasts. “Six… oh god… seven…” My legs were shaking. I could feel an orgasm building terrifyingly fast. Marcus’s hard cock pressed against my ass, thick and ready, but he made no move to fuck me yet. This was about control. About making me fall apart while my mother soaked in the tub just down the hall. “Eight… nine… please, Marcus—” “Count,” he commanded, voice rough with lust. He increased the speed of the rose again. The suction became merciless, pulling and releasing my clit in perfect rhythm. I was dripping, slick mixing with the shower water running down my thighs. The clamps made my nipples throb in time with my heartbeat. “Ten… eleven… twelve—” I was sobbing the numbers now, barely able to form words. My whole body was coiled tight, right on the edge. Marcus’s arm banded around my waist, holding me upright as my knees threatened to give out. “Thirteen… fourteen… I’m gonna— I’m so close—” “Not yet,” he growled. “Keep counting.” He pressed the rose even harder against me and flicked the chain between the clamps, sending a sharp tug through both nipples at once. “Fifteen!” I cried out, the sound too loud even with the water running. I bit my lip hard, trying to stay quiet. “Sixteen… seventeen… oh fuck, eighteen—” My orgasm hit like a freight train. I came violently, body convulsing in his arms, pussy clenching around nothing as wave after wave crashed through me. The rose kept sucking through it all, drawing the pleasure out until it bordered on pain. I lost count completely, moaning and whimpering behind his hand while the nipple clamps kept their merciless bite. Marcus finally pulled the rose away and turned it off, but he left the clamps on. He spun me around, pressing my back to the cool tile, and kissed me deep and filthy while I trembled through the aftershocks. “You lost count at the end, baby,” he murmured against my lips, a dark smile in his voice. “That means we’re doing it again after your mother goes to sleep.” I whimpered, equal parts dread and excitement flooding me. From the hallway, we heard the faint sound of Mom’s bathwater draining. Marcus’s eyes locked on mine, full of wicked promise. “You had better be quiet when you come the second time.”KEIRA POVI didn’t sleep properly Tuesday night.Every time I closed my eyes I was back in his office with his hand in my hair and his mouth almost on mine. The admission sat in my chest like something I’d swallowed wrong. *Both. I went home furious. And I touched myself thinking about your voice.* I’d said it out loud. To him. And he’d looked at me like he wanted to ruin us both for it.Wednesday arrived anyway.I spent the morning pretending to be a functional person. Coffee. Notes I didn’t read. A seminar I barely heard. By four o’clock my nerves were scraped raw. I wore the same black jeans as before and a dark green sweater that made me feel less exposed than I was. My hair was down. My mouth was dry.His office door was ajar.I knocked once.“Come in.”I stepped inside and closed the door behind me without being asked. Enzo was standing at the window this time, not behind the desk, arms crossed, looking at the rain like it had personally offended him. When he turned, the express
KEIRA POVI changed outfits three times before Monday.That fact alone made me want to slap myself. This was not a date. This was not a seduction. This was a mandatory academic meeting with a man I actively despised who also happened to live rent-free in my fantasies like a disease I couldn’t medicate away.I settled on black jeans, a fitted grey sweater, and boots. Nothing that looked like effort. Everything that still made me feel armored. My hair went up, then down, then up again. I left it down.The humanities building always smelled like dust and old ambition. By the time I reached the fourth floor my palms were damp. I wiped them on my jeans, knocked once, and heard his voice through the door.“Come in.”Enzo Varga’s office looked the same as before—books, rain-streaked window, that spiteful plant—but the air felt different. Or maybe I did. He was behind the desk in a black shirt with the sleeves rolled, pen between his fingers, my revised pages already printed and annotated in
KEIRA POVI hated Professor Enzo Varga the way some people hated the sound of their own alarm.It wasn’t a simple dislike. It was personal. Chemical. The kind of irritation that lived under my skin and flared every time he walked into Lecture Hall B with that same unhurried confidence, sleeves already rolled to the forearms, dark hair slightly disordered like he’d just run his hands through it while thinking about something more important than any of us. Forty years old and somehow more magnetic than half the guys my age who still thought a gym selfie counted as a personality.He was brilliant. That was part of the problem. He taught advanced narrative theory like he was bored by how easy it was for him, and he had a habit of looking at students like he was already three steps ahead of whatever mediocre point they were about to make. Including me.Especially me.“Miss Calder,” he said on the third week of term, not even looking up from the essay he’d red-penned into extinction. “This
ANNELIESE POVI woke to the sound of her stirring.For a moment I did not remember where I was. Then the collar pressed against my throat when I swallowed, and the firm cushion under my hip brought everything back. I was on the floor at the foot of Madame Crowe’s bed. Naked. Owned. Still aching between my legs from the night before.“Up,” she said. Her voice was calm, slightly rough from sleep. “Kneel.”I moved into position on the carpet, hands behind my back, eyes lowered. She sat on the edge of the bed in her black robe and studied me while she tied the belt. Morning light filtered through the curtains and caught the silver bracelet on her wrist.“How did you sleep?”“Well enough, Madame.”“Truth.”“I kept waking up. I was aware of the collar. And of you.”She nodded once, as if that answer pleased her.“Bathroom. You have four minutes. Then return and present.”I rose, used the en-suite as quickly as dignity allowed, and came back to kneel in the same spot. She had placed several
ANNELIESE POVI slept in the collar.Madame had not told me to remove it, and I was too afraid of choosing wrong to take it off myself. All night the soft leather sat against my throat like a quiet hand. Every time I swallowed I felt it. Every time I turned over in the narrow bed the weight of it reminded me that I no longer belonged only to myself.At five-twenty I was already awake.I washed, dressed in the full uniform, and checked the mirror twice. The collar was hidden beneath the high neck of the dress, but I knew it was there. My ass still felt warm from the night before. When I walked, the fabric of my underwear brushed skin that remained sensitive. The memory of her hand between my legs while she calmly turned pages made my face heat all over again.At five-fifty-eight I stood outside the study.The door opened at six exactly.Madame Crowe looked me over in silence. Today she wore a black pencil skirt and a blouse the color of bone. Her hair was twisted up. A thin silver brac
ANNELIESE POVI woke before the alarm.Five-fifteen. The house was still dark and silent, the kind of silence that felt deliberate, as if the walls themselves had been trained not to creak. I washed quickly, pulled on the black stockings, the fitted dress, the white apron. My hands shook while I tied the bow at the small of my back. In the mirror I looked neat. Obedient. Like someone who belonged to a place rather than lived in it.At five-fifty-eight I stood outside the study door.At exactly six it opened.Madame Crowe was already dressed — black trousers, cream silk blouse, hair twisted up with the same severe elegance as the day before. She held a cup of coffee and looked me over without speaking for several long seconds. The inspection was thorough enough that heat crawled up my neck.“Turn,” she said.I turned.“Again. Slower.”I turned slower. I could feel her gaze moving down the line of my spine, over the apron ties, along the seams of the stockings. When I faced her again sh







