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Revenge plot part 10

Author: Ace
last update publish date: 2026-10-16 06:56:36

We stood in the middle of my living room after he finished telling me everything. The threat was gone and Tessa was finished. The quiet that followed felt different from every other silence we had shared.

I looked at him and he looked back. We both smiled, already knowing.

“I’m going to take a soak,” I said.

He knew the assignment.

I walked to the bathroom without looking back. The tub was deep and old, the kind that held heat well. I turned the water on hot, added nothing, and stripped while i
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    "You're going to text him," Maya said, perched cross-legged on the end of my bed like a general briefing her troops. "Tell him you need to talk. Make it sound serious. Then you show up looking like that."She pointed at the chair, where she had already laid out my outfit with the care of a museum curator: the soft black top that sat a little lower than anything I usually wore, the skirt that stopped just above the knee, and the laced socks he had once stared at for a full minute without realizing it.“Is the outfit necessary?”“It is.”"And then?" I asked."Then you break his heart.""Maya."Pretend to break his heart." She grinned, slow and wicked. "Let him sit in it. Then you decide how much mercy he gets.""That's cruel.""That's justice. He let me yell at him for a week and never said a word." She tossed me my phone. "Text."I sat for a long moment with my thumb hovering over the screen. Then I typed.Claire: Can we meet? Somewhere Maya won't walk in. I need to talk to you.*His r

  • Forbidden Touch : Stories of Desires   The Brother Problem part 12

    Claire: How is she?I stared at the screen for a full minute before I sent it. It was nearly midnight, and I was sitting cross-legged on my bed with a cold cup of tea and a textbook I hadn't opened since the morning.The reply came fast.Noah: Still annoyed. She hasn't said more than ten words to me all day.Noah: She did say one thing though. I have to end it, or she stops talking to me too.My stomach dropped. I typed, deleted and typed again.Claire: And what did you say?Noah: That I'd think about it. Which she did not like.Claire: Noah.Noah: I'm not ending it, Claire. I'm just trying to work out how not to lose both of you.I pressed the phone to my chest and looked at the ceiling. After a minute I called him, and we talked in low voices for almost an hour. We went through everything. Telling her the whole story again, giving her space, letting him talk to her alone, writing her a letter. Each idea sounded worse than the last, and by the end we were both quiet, listening to eac

  • Forbidden Touch : Stories of Desires   The Brother Problem part 11

    The house was quiet in the way only dawn can make it. Downstairs, the faint clatter of Maya's keyboard had faded into silence, and I told myself that meant she had fallen asleep on the couch.Noah's door clicked shut behind me."We shouldn't," he whispered."You said that last night.""And?""And look how well that went."He laughed, and then I had my hands in his shirt and his back was against the door, and the whole reckless, wonderful feeling from the library came rushing back into my chest. He kissed me like he had been starving. His hands slid beneath my sweater and the cool air touched my skin. I tugged at his collar, and a button gave way and skittered across the floorboards. Neither of us cared.I pulled him toward the bed. My sweater was halfway up my ribs. His shirt hung open off one shoulder. His mouth was at my throat, and I had stopped thinking about anything at all.That was why I didn't hear the stairs.I didn't hear the floorboard in the hallway either, or the soft, de

  • Forbidden Touch : Stories of Desires   The Brother Problem part 10

    I closed the door.The lock clicked. For a moment neither of us moved. The single lamp threw a low gold light across the small room. It fell on me, warm against my face and the open collar of my shirt. Noah stood a step away, one hand still on the doorframe, breathing like he had climbed the stairs too fast.I crossed the space between us.My fingers found his wrists and guided his hands to my chest. He hesitated for a second, then let me place them there. His palms were warm through the fabric. I felt the slight tremble in his fingers and knew mine were shaking too. We were both new at this.He worked the buttons open slowly, one by one, as if giving me time to stop him. I didn’t. When the last one gave way he pushed the shirt off my shoulders and looked down. His eyes moved over me with a kind of careful attention that made my stomach tighten. Then he leaned in and kissed me.His mouth left mine and travelled down the side of my neck. When he reached the soft skin above my bra and c

  • Forbidden Touch : Stories of Desires   The Brother Problem part 9

    I got to the library at nine, forty minutes early, with two coffees, a bag of pretzels, and a plan to look completely calm.The third floor was almost empty. The big corner table Maya had booked sat under a flickering lamp, and I spread my notes across it like I had been there for hours.“You’re early,” a voice said behind me.I didn’t turn around. “So are you.”Noah dropped his bag on the chair beside mine. He was wearing the gray sweater I had once told him, by accident, that I liked.“Where’s Maya?” I asked.“Running late.” He sat down and pulled out a textbook. “She had to deal with something at home. She said she’d come as soon as she could.”“What something?”“She didn’t say. Something with her laptop, I think.” He glanced at me sideways. “Which means we have the table to ourselves for a while.”For twenty minutes we were perfect. He read, I wrote. Somewhere behind us a vending machine hummed. Then his pen stopped moving, and I felt him looking at me.“You’re doing it again,” he

  • Forbidden Touch : Stories of Desires   The Brother Problem part 8

    “What are you doing?” Maya asked.“Nothing,” I said.I took one more step away from the railing, and from Noah. He did the same in the other direction, until there was a whole stretch of dark porch between us. It looked like we were standing at opposite ends of a bus stop.Maya looked at me and then at him.“Okay, that was weird,” she said.“What was?” Noah asked, in his most innocent voice.“That. Whatever you two just did. You jumped apart like I caught you stealing.” She leaned against the doorframe and folded her arms. “Seriously, what’s going on with you guys? One minute you can’t stand each other, and the next you’re closer than best friends. I’m getting whiplash.”I looked at Noah and he looked back. We had spent two weeks perfecting our secret, and we didn’t have a single answer prepared for the one question that mattered.“We were arguing,” I blurted.“Out here? In the dark?”“It was about the movie,” Noah said, at the exact same time.“Which movie?”“The one from last week,”

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