LOGINThe ride back to the house was usually long, but it felt so short as her mind raced through the whole planet, trying not to break down and shed tears in the back of the taxi.By the time the taxi dropped Lisa at the front of their house, the house welcomed her with a heavy, mocking silence.There was no one at home. She was alone.She practically flew up the stairs to her bedroom, throwing her laptop bag onto the desk and collapsing face-first onto her bed. The dam finally broke. She buried her face deep into her pillow, suffocating her own sobs as the tears came thick and fast. She cried for the absolute madness taking over her brain, for the suffocating guilt she felt every time she looked at Elena, and for the agonizing realization that even Ethan looked at her like she was something broken and disgusting. She felt entirely alone, trapped in a reality where up was down and every anchor she had was dissolving into ash.Lisa was still tangled in her sheets, trembling and sniffing
Lisa didn't pull away. In her twilight state of mind, she had no single resistance. She kissed him back with a fierce, trembling desperation, her hands tangling into his hair, pulling him closer as if trying to search deep into his body. She wanted to disappear into him. She wanted their very souls to melt together, erasing the agonizing loneliness that had been hollowed out inside her. She had missed his touch so desperately; ever since he had vanished from her dreams, she had been starving in a desert of her own making.Adrian’s breath hitched against her mouth, his grip tightening until it was almost bruising. He was starving, too. The weeks of holding himself back, of deliberately starving her of his presence so she would ripen into this exact state of absolute dependency, had taken a toll on his own restraint. He wanted nothing more than to completely devour her right here, to tear away the remaining threads of restraint and claim her fully.But the bright afternoon sun wa
Third Person POVLisa pushed through the glass doors of the library, her laptop bag weighing down her shoulder, and she felt completely worn out. The bright, drying campus plaza was teeming with students, but her eyes locked onto a familiar silhouette standing by the concrete pillar near the courtyard.It was Ethan. What was he doing at her school?They hadn't spoken properly since the day he left the house so abruptly without so much as a goodbye. Ever since then, his texts had been brief, clinical, and completely devoid of his usual warmth. He had been acting entirely weird, and while Lisa had spent the last few days trying to convince herself that the distance was just a product of his busy schedule and her own fracturing sanity, seeing him now made her chest tighten with a fresh wave of anxiety. She was so out of her mind, so completely out of her head with the heavy confusion of the past week, that she practically rushed down the steps toward him. She needed someone to talk
Elena, entirely oblivious to the rot festering beneath the surface of her home, remained the fiercely doting sister she had always been. On the evening before classes officially restarted, she came into my room carrying a fresh load of laundry, setting it down before sitting on the edge of my bed."Are you ready for tomorrow, Lis?" she asked, her eyes full of genuine warmth as she reached out to tuck a stray piece of hair behind my ear. "I know how much pressure you've been under with that major research article. You've been so quiet lately, and I've been worried about you."Guilt, sharp and toxic, stabbed through my stomach. I swallowed hard, forcing a small smile. "I'm okay, El. Just a little nervous about getting back into the swing of things.""Well, you don't have to worry about the morning rush," Elena said softly, patting my knee. "I shifted my morning meetings around so I can drive you to campus myself. I want to make sure you have a stress-free start, okay? We can even g
Lisa's POV A few days passed, and the house gradually transformed into a beautifully designed torture chamber.Adrian didn’t touch me. Not the way he had that morning in the kitchen, and certainly not with the suffocating weight that had pinned me to my mattress in my sleep. In fact, he pulled back entirely. The dreams that had left me waking up wet, needy, and aching stopped appearing, and I only saw traces of Adrian in my dream smiling at me. He never fucked me.And this left behind a cold, hollow void that felt infinitely worse. Instead of the relief I should have felt, a frantic, pathetic desperation began to take root in my chest. I found myself lying awake for hours, staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep, and then at some point, I wondered if I had been toyed with in reality and none of that was a dream.There was a possibility that the Adrian I knew was not so innocent after all.So I waited, hoping to hear the floorboards creek outside my room door, secretly begging for
Adrian's POVThe click of the front door was a clean, sharp sound that officially put an end to my game.I smoothly adjusted my posture as I walked into the foyer, keeping my hands casually buried in my pockets. On the outside, I was the absolute picture of unbothered, doting perfection. But inside, my blood was singing.‘So close.’The memory of the sheer panic and desperate, twisted desire warring in Lisa’s wide eyes made a dark wave of satisfaction roll through me. It was intoxicating, watching her unravel like that. If Elena’s car hadn’t pulled into the gravel driveway at that exact millisecond, Lisa would have reached out. She would have pulled me down. I had been a hair's breadth away from breaking her completely, from forcing her to be the one to cross the line and initiate the sin. The anticipation of it sent a sudden, sharp throb straight to my cock—a tight ache of excitement that I masked flawlessly behind a calm, easy breath.It was annoying how everyone seemed to lov
I knew I should move. I understood on some distant, clinical level that compliance was statistically the safest immediate response to a weapon, that escalation was the variable I needed to avoid at all costs. My mind tried to tell me that my body needed to simply take one step forward and then ano
"Your heart is racing. Are you sure you're feeling okay?”No, no, I'm not okay. Anytime you come near, I feel like I'm losing my mind. Just… stay away from me, Adrian.I pursed my lips, utterly unable to utter the words that were screaming at the top of my lungs inside my head. The psychological
The moment my consciousness drifted, the thick, suffocating heat wrapped around my body all over again. In the vacuum of the dream, Adrian’s massive frame was already waiting, pinning me effortlessly into the mattress. His large hands locked onto my waist, dragging my hips upward with a brutal, fa
Lisa’s POVThe door clicked shut, and the sudden absence of Ethan's frantic, protective energy left the foyer entirely too quiet.I stood near the kitchen counter, the silence of the house settling heavily over my shoulders. My heart was still recovering from that bizarre, suffocating moment upstai







