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Next Week's Promise

Penulis: Riah
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-21 13:47:56

Day twenty-one felt like the house was finally learning to exhale. The sun stayed longer, warming the porch where Amina had sat just nights before, and the lilacs continued to bloom heavy and sweet along Maple Lane. Amina had texted mid-morning: “Next week dinner still good? Wednesday maybe? I’ll bring pasta salad. We can sit on the porch again if it’s nice. No pressure, just… keeping the rhythm.”

Elias read the message while I was still tangled in his arms in bed, his body curled tightly aroun
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  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Excerpt

    The house was supposed to be empty.Lila was on a thirty-six-hour call shift, and I had only come by to drop off the lasagna I’d made for them. But Marcus was there — shirtless in the kitchen after a workout, sweat still glistening on his broad chest and carved abs. His gray sweatpants hung low on his hips, leaving nothing to the imagination.“Elena,” he said, voice low and rough when he saw me standing in the doorway. His eyes darkened as they dragged over my sundress. “You shouldn’t be here right now.”I knew I should leave. Instead, I set the dish on the counter and stepped closer.“I can’t stop thinking about you,” I whispered, the confession spilling out like a sin I was tired of hiding. “Every time I see you with her… every time you call her your wife… I get so fucking wet it hurts.”Marcus’s jaw clenched. In two strides he had me pinned against the fridge, one thick thigh pushing between my legs as his big hand wrapped around my throat — not squeezing, just holding. Possessing.

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Epilogue***

    mouth moved down my neck, sucking and biting hard enough to leave faint marks that would fade by morning. I arched into him, fingers threading through his hair as he worked his way lower. When he reached my breasts, he took one nipple into his mouth, sucking deeply while his hand kneaded the other, pinching and rolling the tight peak until I was whimpering.“Elias…” I breathed, hips rolling against the hard length of him.He dropped to his knees in front of me, hands sliding my pants and underwear down in one smooth motion. He looked up at me, eyes dark with hunger and that familiar clingy need.“Spread your legs for Daddy,” he said, voice filthy and low. “Let me taste how wet you still are from carrying my cum all day.”I widened my stance. He leaned in immediately, his tongue dragging slowly up my slit, savoring the taste of us mixed together. A deep, satisfied groan rumbled from his chest as he found my clit and sucked it gently into his mouth. My knees buckled. He gripped my hips

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Epilogue....

    The house was quiet after Amina went to bed. The kind of quiet that pressed against the skin, heavy with everything unsaid during the day. Elias and I moved through the familiar motions of closing up — locking the front door, turning off the porch lights, checking that Lila’s monitor was on in the nursery. But there was a current running beneath it all tonight, something sharper and more urgent than the usual exhaustion after a long visit.When we finally stepped into our bedroom and closed the door behind us, Elias didn’t speak. He simply turned me against the wall, one large hand sliding up to cup the back of my neck as his mouth found mine. The kiss was deep from the start, slow and claiming, like he had been holding himself back all day and could no longer.His other hand moved down my body, possessive and sure, slipping under my shirt to palm my breast. I gasped into his mouth as his thumb brushed over my nipple, already tight and sensitive. He groaned low in his throat, the soun

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Epilogue 3

    Fifteen Years LaterLila was twenty when she left for college.She chose a school four hours away — the same distance Amina had once traveled. Elias had tried very hard not to make a big deal about it, but the night before she left, I caught him sitting in her empty room at two in the morning, just staring at the walls.“She’s ready,” I told him, leaning in the doorway.He didn’t look at me. “I know. That doesn’t make it easier.”Amina had come home for the weekend to help Lila pack. She was thirty-six now, married to Noah for eight years, and working as a therapist specializing in grief and family transitions. She had built a quiet, steady life two towns over. They didn’t have children yet. She had told us, privately, that she wasn’t sure if she ever would. We had told her that was okay.On Lila’s last night home, the five of us sat on the porch one final time before she left. Lila was sprawled across the swing with her head in Amina’s lap. Noah sat on the steps. Elias and I shared t

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Epilogue 2

    Ten Years LaterLila was ten when Amina got engaged.The proposal happened on a Saturday in early spring. Noah had taken Amina to the overlook behind the old high school — the same place they had gone on their third date years earlier. He had gotten down on one knee with the entire town apparently in on the secret, because half of Willow Creek seemed to know about it before Amina even called us.She called that evening, her voice shaking in a way we hadn’t heard in years.“He asked,” she said, the second Elias answered the phone. “Noah asked me to marry him. I said yes.”Elias had gone very still, the phone pressed to his ear. I watched his face carefully.“Are you happy?” he asked quietly.There was a pause on the other end.“I am,” Amina said. Her voice was thick. “I really am. But I also feel… strange. Like I’m starting something new while I’m still figuring out the old stuff. Does that make sense?”“It makes perfect sense,” Elias answered. “You don’t have to have everything figure

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Epilogue 1

    The lilacs along Maple Lane had grown taller over the years, their branches now reaching the second-floor windows in late spring. The house itself had changed in small, lived-in ways — a new coat of paint on the porch railing, a wooden swing set in the backyard that Elias had built himself, and the faint sound of a five-year-old’s laughter echoing from inside.Lila was five now. She had Elias’s hazel eyes and my stubborn streak, and she had recently decided that every sentence needed to end with “because I said so.” Amina had come home for her birthday weekend, something she had started doing more consistently over the past couple of years.She was twenty-six now. She had finished her master’s degree the year before and was working as a high school counselor two towns over. Noah had moved in with her six months ago. They weren’t engaged yet, but the way she talked about him had shifted — less like she was testing the waters and more like she was building something solid.On the mornin

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    The Long Weekend

    The days leading up to Amina’s visit moved with a quiet steadiness that still felt new. The house on Maple Lane had settled into a rhythm that no longer carried the sharp edge of secrecy. Elias and I woke up without the old tension in our chests. We made coffee together, talked about small things o

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    The Dinner Table

    The house smelled like rosemary and roasted chicken when Lena and Tyler arrived on Saturday evening. Elias had spent the afternoon fussing over the meal in a way that told me how nervous he was, even though he kept insisting it was “just dinner.” I had set the table with the good plates and lit a f

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    Telling The Truth Out Loud

    The decision came on a quiet Tuesday morning while we were drinking coffee on the porch. The air was cold enough that we needed the thick blanket draped over both our laps, and the steam from our mugs curled upward in soft spirals before disappearing into the pale sky.Elias had been quiet for a wh

  • Offlimits Desire: My Best friend's Daddy    The Shape of Things

    The leaves had mostly fallen now, carpeting Maple Lane in shades of rust and gold. The air carried a sharper bite in the mornings, and Elias had started bringing an extra blanket out to the porch swing in the evenings. Life had found a new rhythm — slower, more honest, and surprisingly steady.Amin

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