LOGINEmma’s Pov
The park was empty. I pulled into the gravel lot and killed the engine, my hands still gripping the steering wheel like it was the only thing keeping me grounded. Rushmore Park. The old pavilion. This was insane. I should turn around. Drive home. Pretend I never got the text. But my body was already moving, unbuckling my seatbelt, opening the door, stepping out into the cooling evening air. The park stretched out before me, dark and quiet. The old pavilion sat at the far end, half-hidden by trees. I could see the path leading into the woods, where the clearing was supposed to be. My heart was pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears. This is stupid. This is so stupid. But I walked anyway. The path was darker than I expected, the trees overhead blocking out most of the fading sunlight. My footsteps crunched on fallen leaves, too loud in the silence. I was almost to the clearing when a hand grabbed my arm. I opened my mouth to scream— “Shh.” The voice was low, familiar, and my scream died in my throat. I spun around. James. He was standing so close I could feel the heat radiating off him, his hand still wrapped around my arm. His eyes were dark, intense, searching my face like he was trying to memorize it. Before I could say anything, he pulled me deeper into the trees, away from the path, away from any chance of being seen. “Are you trying to kill me?” I hissed once we stopped in the darkest part of the clearing. “Is that what this is? You’re going to murder me because of our situation?” He didn’t answer, just kept walking until we were completely hidden by the shadows. Then he stopped and turned to face me. “I’m not trying to kill you, Emma.” His voice was rough, strained. “Then what are you doing?” I demanded, my voice shaking. “What do you want from me?” “I needed to see you. To talk to you.” “Talk?” I laughed bitterly. “What is there to talk about, James? You’re marrying my mother in two weeks. There’s nothing to say.” “There’s everything to say.” He stepped closer. “Emma, I didn’t know. When I met your mother, I had no idea she was—” “My mother?” I finished. “Yeah, I figured that out.” “I need you to understand—” “Understand what?” My voice was rising now, panic and anger and something else I didn’t want to name bubbling up inside me. “That you touched me in your classroom two weeks ago and now you’re going to be my stepfather? What exactly am I supposed to understand about that?” “Emma.” He reached for me, his hand cupping my face. “Calm down. You’re okay. Nothing is going to happen.” “Nothing is going to happen?” I stared at him. “Everything has already happened!” “You’re not going to tell your mother,” he said quietly. It wasn’t a question. “Of course I’m not going to tell her,” I snapped. “It would destroy her.” “Good.” His thumb brushed across my cheek, and I hated how my body responded—the immediate heat, the way my breath caught. “Then we can move past this,” he said softly. “Move past it?” I tried to pull away, but his hand tightened. “James, how are we supposed to move past—” “I can’t stop thinking about you.” The words hit me like a physical blow. “What?” I whispered. “I can’t stop,” he repeated, his voice dropping lower. “Every day. Every night. All I see is you.” “Don’t.” I put my hand on his chest, trying to push him away. “Don’t do this.” “Tell me you haven’t been thinking about it too,” he challenged, stepping closer until I had to step back. “Tell me you haven’t replayed that afternoon a thousand times.” I had. God, I had. “It doesn’t matter what I’ve been thinking,” I said desperately. “You’re marrying my mother. This is wrong. So, so wrong.” “I know it’s wrong.” Another step. My back hit something solid, a tree. “Then why are you here?” I asked, trapped between him and the rough bark behind me. He leaned down, his mouth inches from my ear. “Because wrong or not, I want you, Emma. Not your mother. You.” “James—” “Your mother and I…” He pulled back just enough to look at me. “It’s not what you think. Yes, she cares about me, and I care about her. But it’s not… it’s not love. Not like—” “Don’t,” I interrupted. “Don’t finish that sentence.” “Why not?” “Because it doesn’t change anything!” My voice cracked. “You’re still marrying her. You’re still going to be my—” “Don’t say it.” His hand slid into my hair, tilting my head back. “Don’t call me that.” “What else am I supposed to call you?” His eyes dropped to my mouth. “You know what I want you to call me.” The air between us was suffocating, charged with everything we weren’t saying. “This has to stop,” I whispered, but I didn’t move. Couldn’t move. “Tell me you don’t want this,” he said, his lips brushing against my jaw. “Tell me to leave and I will.” I should have told him. Should have pushed him away and run. But when his mouth found the side of my neck, a sound escaped my lips that was definitely not a rejection. “Emma.” His voice was rough against my skin. “Tell me to stop.” “We should stop,” I breathed, even as my hands fisted in his shirt. “James, we really should—” “That’s not what I asked.” His hand slid down my side, over my hip, lower. “Tell me you don’t want this,” he repeated, his fingers finding the hem of my skirt. I couldn’t. I couldn’t say it. Because it would be a lie. “I—” The words died as his hand moved higher, and suddenly I couldn’t think at all. “Say it, Emma.” His mouth was on my neck, my jaw, everywhere. “Tell me you don’t love this.”Sienna’s PovThe first lesson was a disaster, and I say that as someone who once got coughed on by a first year with the flu.I told him to open his book to chapter four. He opened it, looked at it for maybe three seconds, then slid his phone out from under the cover and started scrolling."Nico.""Mm.""Phone.""I'm listening.""You're not.""I can do both. It's called multitasking, you should try it."I didn't say anything. I just waited. He kept scrolling, and I kept waiting, and the clock on the wall was so loud I could hear every tick.Then I reached across the table and took the phone right out of his hand."Hey!"I put it face down next to my laptop."Give it back.""After the lesson.""You can't just take my stuff.""I just did."He stared at me like I'd slapped him. I think nobody had ever done that to him before, taken something from him and not said sorry."You know I can buy ten of these," he said."Then buy ten. I'll take all ten.""Wow." He dropped back in his chair and
Sienna’s PovI hate this job.I said it in the staff room today and Tessa laughed so hard she spilled coffee on her skirt."Say it again. I don't think the dean heard you.""I'm serious, Tess. Five years. Five whole years of talking to people who don't even want to be there."And today was one of those days. A boy slept through my entire lecture with his mouth open. A girl asked me if the exam would be "easy or hard," like I'm the weather forecast. Then another one told me, to my face, that my slides were boring. In front of everybody.I smiled and said thanks for the feedback. Inside I wanted to throw my marker at his head.Tessa wiped her skirt with a tissue. "So are you going today or not?""I'm going.""Nervous?""No.""Sianna.""Okay, a little."I got the job last week. Professor Hale passed my number to the Mulet family, and the mother called me herself. The pay was so good, anyone would say yes immediately. She wants me to tutor her son after my lectures, three evenings a week.
Victoria’s Pov I woke up stuck to the sheet. Their cum had dried on my thighs and between my ass cheeks, and when I moved it pulled. Sore in a way that made me clench around nothing. Matteo was already awake, watching my face like he had been waiting for the exact second I opened my eyes. “Shower,” I said. My throat was raw. “No.” He pushed two fingers into me and curled them. I jerked. Raw, then wet around him anyway. “You don’t wash us off until we’ve had you again. Kai.” Kai walked in with nothing on, already hard, and looked at the mess between my legs like it belonged to him. “New rule,” he said. “You run this floor. We catch you, we fuck you where you fall. You wanted your head empty. You get it by being used until you can’t think. Go.” My stomach dropped and my pussy clenched at the same time. I ran. I made it to the landing. Kai caught my wrist, spun me, and slammed me into the wall. Cold paint on my tits. He kicked my feet apart, dragged his cock through the slic
Victoria’s Pov I came through the door already wound too tight. Hospital soap. Jonathan’s voice. Dad asking where I was. I did not want a shower and a ceiling. I wanted something that would shut my head up.Kai was in the hall. Matteo behind him.“He asked for you,” Kai said.“Yeah. Then he slept. I’m not doing a recap.” I dropped my bag. “I don’t want to go upstairs and think. I need to not think.”Kai’s eyes changed. “Say what that means.”“It means fuck me. Both of you. I already said yes. I’m saying it because I want it, not because of the hospital.”Matteo stepped in and caught my jaw. “Careful. You ask like that, you get it like that.”“Good.”They took me to the big room. Door shut. Kai kissed me hard enough to knock the day sideways. Matteo pulled my dress up and off before I finished kissing back. No slow undress. Bra gone. Underwear yanked down. I was wet and it was obvious, and I didn’t care.“Look at that,” Kai said, fingers sliding through it. “You needed this.”“Stop ta
Victoria’s PovI woke up already tired. Kai had the file on the table when I came down, a brown envelope, nothing fancy.“Doctor’s in there, ward, what they’re moving him for,” he said. “Don’t add names. If Jonathan asks who paid, it’s the company. That’s the whole script. You don’t need a better one.”“He’ll hate that.”“Let him hate it. Hate is quieter than the police.”Matteo drank his coffee and didn’t join in. In the car I held the envelope so hard the paper bent. Nancy opened the apartment door this time. She looked past me first, saw both of them, and tried to act normal about it. She was bad at it.“You came back.”“I said I would.”Jonathan was in the kitchen. He didn’t hug me. He held his hand out for the envelope and read standing up, lips moving on the hospital name.“This is real,” he said.“Yes.”“And the company is paying.”“Yes.”“What company?”“The one I work for. They’re private. I can’t put a person on it.”He looked up. “That’s not an answer, Vic.”“It’s the answe
Victoria’s PovJonathan did not let it go. I had known he would not. He waited until the nurse sent us into the hall again, then jerked his chin at the stairwell.“Just you.”Kai looked at me. I nodded before Matteo could shut it down. “Five minutes. I’ll be right here.”The stairwell smelled like the cleaner they used on the floors. Jonathan shut the door with his foot and stood with his hands on his hips, which was what he did when he was trying not to shout in a building full of sick people.“Start again.”“Jon.”“Don’t. You left. You called from a number that wasn’t yours. You sounded like someone was sitting next to you telling you what to say. Now two men I’ve never met are in Dad’s room, and you’re talking about a hospital we cannot pay for.” He rubbed his face. “I’m not an idiot, Vic. If you’re in trouble, say it while we’re alone.”The truth got as far as my teeth. I could see it. I tell him, he does something brave, Matteo hears about it before we reach the car, and my broth
Emma’s Pov His fingers shoved my skirt up roughly, bunching it around my waist. No teasing, no gentleness—just raw need. He cupped my pussy through my soaked panties, pressing the heel of his palm hard against my clit while two thick fingers dragged along my slit, feeling how drenched I already wa
Emma's Pov I woke up to sunlight and a splitting headache. For one blissful second, I didn't remember. Then it all came crashing back. Professor James. My dining room. My mother's hand in his. "We're getting married." "Fuck," I groaned. I was still in my party clothes, makeup smeared, ha
Emma's Pov "Oh my God, did you see what Jessica wore to graduation?" Ashley's voice cut through the morning chaos outside the ceremony hall. I barely registered it. My mind was somewhere else entirely. "Ashley, stop," I muttered, adjusting my cap for the hundredth time. "What? I'm just sayin
Emma’s Pov “I can’t believe we’re actually graduating today!” Ashley screamed, throwing her arms around me so hard we nearly toppled over in the hallway. I laughed, steadying both of us against the lockers. “Ash, calm down. We still have one final exam to get through.” “I know, I know, but sti







