LOGIN[Alma]Unlike the other doors we'd gone through, this one had a small sensor beside the handle.Zevyn finally lifted his hand and placed his thumb against it.A soft beep sounded.There was a brief pause before the lock released and the door slowly pushed open.He stepped inside.I followed behind him, but it took me exactly one minute to understand why he'd hesitated before opening the door.The room was filled with artwork.Not one.Not two.Not three.Not even ten.There were so many that for a moment I didn't know where to look first.Every piece had been placed carefully, hanging perfectly against the walls, and there were write-ups embodied across almost every section of the room. It wasn't just a collection of photographs. It felt like someone had taken pieces of a life and preserved them here, refusing to let any of them disappear.My eyes moved slowly from one frame to another.Pictures of his parents.Zevyn's mother in a shopping mall, caught in the middle of a laugh as she
[Alma]"What the hell is wrong with me?" I muttered, rubbing at my cheeks as if I could somehow erase the heat burning beneath my skin. It took exactly twenty seconds before the door behind me finally swung open.I didn't turn around.I couldn't.And I had no fucking idea why."Princess." Zevyn's voice cut through the silence, and I blinked, my fingers digging into my palm as I finally forced myself to look toward him.He was already watching me."Is something wrong?" he asked again, worry settling between his brows as his eyes searched my face.I shook my head."Nothing is wrong." The words came out a little too quickly, and I almost cursed myself the moment they left my mouth."We should keep going." I swallowed and folded my arms across my chest, suddenly grateful for the small barrier they created between us. I didn't want him reaching for my hand again. Not yet. I needed whatever the hell was happening inside me to settle down first, even though I couldn't understand what exactl
[Alma]"You can't say that yet." Zevyn folded his arms across his chest. "You haven't seen every other room.""I know this is my favorite." I smiled, and he simply raised a hand in surrender, like he already knew there was no point arguing with me.I wandered around the room again, then again, my eyes catching something new each time.I was still admiring the recliners when Zevyn's voice came from behind me."Hold on."I turned toward him.He had his phone in his hand, his thumb moving across the screen before he lifted it slightly."Set up the cinema."For a second, I wasn't sure who he was talking to. Then a mechanical voice came from the phone, confirming whatever command he'd just given.And then...The white lights went off.I almost flinched when darkness swallowed the room again.Before I could complain, a faint glow appeared from the enormous screen at the front of the room. The screen slowly came alive, casting a soft light across the darkness.Then the room began to change.
[Alma]What exactly did I expect from a man who was this fucking rich?lJust as we stopped in front of the next door, I had no idea why, but Sienna and Elara's faces suddenly flashed through my mind. My legs stopped moving before I even realized it, leaving me standing there with Zevyn's hand still wrapped around mine.I blinked, biting down on my lower lip as I tried to push the image away, but it lingered.And then Sienna's words returned too.I bit the inside of my cheek, almost expecting that same familiar tugging I'd felt yesterday, that heaviness that had settled somewhere inside my chest whenever I thought about what she'd said.But there was nothing.Just... emptiness.The space where something used to hurt suddenly felt completely fucking void, and somehow that felt stranger than the pain itself."Is Something wrong?" Zevyn's voice pulled me straight out of my thoughts.I blinked and turned toward him, only then realizing we'd been standing in front of the door without moving
[Alma]'Just fucking focus, Alma." I scolded myself for what felt like the hundredth time as I tried not to think about the hand gripping mine, warm and steady. The harder I tried not to notice it, the more aware I became of every little movement of his fingers against mine.I pressed my lips together and fell into step beside Zevyn, forcing my attention toward the house instead of the man walking next to me.We made it toward the living room before he suddenly halted.I stopped with him, and when his eyes moved toward me, I felt the immediate urge to look anywhere else. But it was already too late.His eyes were fixed on mine, and for a second, I forgot what I had been trying so hard to distract myself from."As you already know..." He glanced around the room before looking back at me. "This is my living room."He said it with such a straight face that I almost laughed.I nodded instead, my lips suddenly feeling too heavy. "I already know that."Zevyn's fingers tightened around mine,
[Zevyn]She stared at me as if she was seeing me for the first time.Her lips parted, but nothing came out. Then she snapped them shut and looked away, her fingers tightening against the glass in front of her. I watched her blink several times, each one slower than the last, as she fought like hell to keep the tears sitting in her eyes from spilling over.And just as if the conversation had never happened, she immediately jumped down from the stool. Her eyes snapped back to me, and every trace of the sadness that had covered her face only a few seconds ago seemed to disappear.Her eyes lit up again, that familiar spark returning so quickly that anyone who hadn't been watching her closely would have believed she was fine. But I had been watching her. I could still see it beneath that sudden brightness. She had pushed it somewhere deeper, somewhere she could pretend it wasn't there."I was meaning to tell you to give me a house tour," she said, reaching for the plates sitting on the isl
[Alma]Wrong.Wrong.Wrong.The words echoed in my head relentlessly as I knelt there—shameless—staring up at a stranger’s cock like I wasn’t fucking married.I should leave.Stand up and run as far as I could.This was wrong.I can’t be doing this—But my body wouldn’t listen.It felt like my mind
[Zevyn]A damn bold one. Captivating green eyes.That was the first thought that cut through me the moment she grabbed my shirt and crashed her lips onto mine.And then those curves—locked into a red dress that shouldn’t have looked that dangerous on her.I am a man people learned not to breathe to
[Alma]The moment my lips touched his, everything in me went still.His lips were warm against mine, and for a moment my mind simply… stopped working.My fingers tightened on his shirt like it was the only thing keeping me grounded, my lips moving slowly over his as if I was trying to understand wh
[Alma] I gulped down, my eyes fixed on the closed door as if Mason would walk back in if I looked hard enough Walk back in and take back those words. "Tessy needs me." "Nothing is more important than making sure she's safe." "You’ve been terribly out of shape." The words echoed in my he







