All Chapters of Forbidden Affairs : Chapter 321 - Chapter 330

The next three weeks were torture disguised as discipline.Elena ran rehearsals like a tyrant. She drilled the company until feet bled inside satin pointe shoes, until spines shook with exhaustion, until every transition in the new Salome was carved into muscle memory with surgical precision. No one dared complain. They all knew the reviews would either crown them or bury them, and Elena’s reputation was a blade balanced on their necks.Valeria, officially named understudy with the promise of two performances, absorbed the punishment with a half-smile that never reached her eyes. She took every correction Elena threw at her, every vicious “Again, from the entrance—cleaner, you look like a whore with a broken hip,” without flinching. But when Elena’s hand lingered on the small of her back a fraction too long, or when their eyes locked across the studio and held, Valeria’s tongue would touch the corner of her mouth in a promise that made Elena’s stomach drop.They did not touch again. N

They left separately, of course.Elena took the company car at dawn, black coat collar turned up, sunglasses hiding the faint bruises on her throat. Valeria followed three hours later in a rideshare, baseball cap pulled low, duffel bag slung over one shoulder like any other dancer escaping the city for a long weekend. No one saw them arrive together. No one ever would.The hotel was anonymous and expensive: thirty-second floor, corner suite, windows on two sides overlooking the river and the lights that never slept. Elena had booked it under the name of a long-dead ballerina no one would question. The key card waited at reception in an unmarked envelope.Valeria let herself in at four-seventeen p.m. The curtains were already drawn. The only light came from the city bleeding through the gaps and a single lamp beside the bed. Elena stood at the window in a black silk robe, untouched glass of red wine in one hand. She did not turn when the door clicked shut.Valeria dropped the duffel. T

Professor Evelyn Hart stood at the podium of Lecture Hall 204, watching the last stragglers file in for her Thursday afternoon seminar on Eroticism in Modernist Poetry. Forty-two years old, still handsome in the severe way that made undergraduates nervous, she wore her usual armor: charcoal pencil skirt, cream silk blouse buttoned to the throat, hair twisted into a knot so tight it looked painful. The room smelled of old paper and burnt coffee. Outside, October rain slashed against the tall windows.She had taught this course for nine years and never once felt the air change when a particular student walked in. Until today.Lila Moreau arrived late, as she had every week since the semester began. She slipped through the door without apology, combat boots leaving wet prints on the hardwood. Black skirt barely grazing mid-thigh, fishnet stockings torn at one knee, a man’s white dress shirt knotted under her breasts and clearly nothing underneath. Her mouth was painted the color of fresh

Evelyn’s apartment door had barely clicked shut before Lila had her pinned to the hallway wall. No words, no pretense about rare editions or thesis drafts. Just the hard young body slamming into hers, mouth crushing, teeth scraping Evelyn’s lower lip until she tasted copper. Lila’s hands were everywhere at once: yanking the silk blouse open so buttons pinged across the parquet floor, shoving the pencil skirt up to Evelyn’s hips, palming her ass with bruising force.Evelyn tried to speak. Lila swallowed the sound, tongue thrusting deep, fucking her mouth the way she clearly intended to fuck the rest of her. Evelyn’s back scraped plaster. She felt the expensive framing of a Modigliani print dig between her shoulder blades and didn’t care. She kissed back like a woman starving, nails raking down Lila’s spine through the thin white shirt.They left a trail of clothes to the living room: Evelyn’s bra flung over a lamp, one of Lila’s boots kicked so hard it left a dent in the baseboard. By

The summons came on a Tuesday that tasted like metal.Evelyn was in her office marking midterms when the department secretary knocked once and opened the door without waiting. “Dean wants you. Now.” The woman’s eyes flicked over the room as if already cataloguing what would be boxed up by the end of the week.Evelyn walked the long corridor alone. Portraits of dead white men watched her pass. She felt their painted eyes on the faint bruises blooming along her collarbone, the ones Lila had sucked into her skin only twelve hours earlier.Dean Hargrove’s office smelled of lemon polish and impending execution. Two people waited behind the desk: the dean herself, face carved from granite, and the university’s general counsel, a thin man with a tie the color of dried blood. On the polished mahogany between them lay a manila folder thick with photographs.“Close the door, Evelyn.”She did. The click sounded final.They did not ask her to sit. They simply opened the folder and spread the