AvaMaya lay on her side, one leg cocked out over the edge of the bed, the other tucked up under her, half-wrapped in the storm-gray sheet. Her hair spilled over the pillow, fanned out like black silk, her lips parted just enough to show the soft pink inside. She looked… peaceful. Not the word anyon
AvaThe slap wasn’t planned. My arm moved on its own, a relic of some ancient fight-or-flight buried so deep in my DNA it didn’t care about mate bonds or common sense. It made a sound like a gunshot. Levi’s head whipped to the side, and for a moment he didn’t move.My hand stung. My ears rang. I fro
I looked past him, out at the black water. The city was gone, vanished behind a curve in the river or maybe just erased by distance. The only lights were the pinpoint reflections of stars on the current, and the blue-white aura of the yacht itself.If he threw me overboard, nobody would ever know.H
AvaLevi reached over me, not touching but close enough to spark every nerve in my body, and said, “Come with me.” It wasn’t a question or a command—it was worse. It was a perfectly ordinary invitation, except my whole system short-circuited in response.I looked down at Maya, sprawled on the sheets
AvaThe first kiss was gentle, almost chaste. Sofia let it happen, then deepened it, tongue flicking out to taste the inside of Maya’s lip. Her hands cradled Maya’s face, pulling her in, and then her body pressed forward until there was nothing but skin and silk and hunger.I stood there, paralyzed,
AvaThe main lounge was less a room and more a cult designed to make you forget about the outside world. The first thing that hit me was the light—beyond the spiral of white leather stairs, the whole far wall was just glass, black water on three sides and city lights already fading to memory behind