All Chapters of DANGEROUS ADDICTION: Sex, Love and Scandal: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

Amira’s apartment was quiet, and the only light in the room came from the television, which she wasn’t really watching. She had been on her couch, legs pulled up, back against the armrest for the past hour and a half, doing nothing productive. She heaved a deep sigh. She picked up her phone and went straight to her camera roll. She scrolled through the videos she had made at the game three days ago. She’d filmed about five videos from her seat, each about forty-five seconds. She had recorded mostly because Gael had asked her. He was fond of accusing her of not watching his games at the Arena, and this time, he had compelled her to watch, and the video served as evidence. Amira had forgotten about it until now. She pressed play on the third video. The crowd noise came through the speaker, tinny and small. On screen, the players were shifting positions on the court. She watched it all the way once. Then again. On the third time, she stopped paying attention to the court and started l

Gael’s apartment was the kind of place that looked like no one had decorated it on purpose. However, it still worked—good couch, terrible overhead lighting he never used, a speaker on the kitchen counter that was always connected to something low and unhurried. Amira had been here enough times that she knew which burner on his stove ran hot and where he kept the extra towels.She’d come over around nine. He’d ordered food, they’d eaten on the couch, and the conversation had been easy the way it always was with Gael—surface level sometimes, but never uncomfortable. He didn’t ask too much of her, and she didn’t ask too much of him, and it had been working like that for more than eighteen months.When they made love, it was familiar. That was the right word for it. Not boring, familiar. The difference mattered. She knew how he moved, and he knew how she responded, and there was a comfort in that, a specific kind of ease that only came from time and repetition. Gael was physical and warm