TWISTED ECSTASY [An Erotic Collection]의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 5

The ballroom pulses with low music and the clink of expensive champagne glasses. Crystal chandeliers throw golden light across masks and gowns, but I feel like I’m suffocating in the middle of it all. I tug at the edge of my silver mask, making sure it’s still secure. The backless black dress hugs my body tighter than I expected when I slipped it on earlier, the fabric cool against my skin. Richard would lose his shit if he saw how much of my back it exposes. Perfect. That’s exactly why I wore it.Six months since Tom fucked my colleague in our bed. Six months of pretending I’m fine, smiling at family dinners while my stepfather lectures me about responsibility and “not embarrassing the Harrington name.” My mother just sits there, quiet as always, choosing peace over me. Tonight I’m done playing the good stepdaughter. I slipped away from our table some minutes ago, needing air that doesn’t taste like obligation. I’m leaning against a marble pillar, nursing a glass of champagne, w

The next morning, my body still remembers every second of last night.I wake up aching in the best and worst ways. My thighs are sore, my nipples still sensitive from how he pinched and teased them. Every time I move, I feel the ghost of Damien’s fingers inside me, the low growl of his voice saying my full name right as I came.I should be furious. I should be terrified. Instead, I’ve spent half the night touching myself thinking about the masked stranger who turned out to be my stepfather’s enemy. The man who watched me for months. The man who made me beg.I hate how much I want him.By the time I drag myself downstairs for breakfast, the mansion feels colder than usual. Richard is at the head of the table, newspaper in one hand, coffee in the other. My mother sits beside him like a pretty ornament, barely looking at me.Richard doesn’t even glance up when I sit down. “You disappeared from the gala last night. Care to explain?”My stomach tightens. “Needed some air.”He finally looks

For the past three months I’ve been living at Vale Manor, sorting through the private library collection for Lucas and his partner. The job came through a university contact, and I jumped at it. Quiet work, beautiful old house, good pay. What I didn’t plan on was them. They’ve been together for years. Anyone can see it in the way they move around each other, comfortable, possessive, warm. I told myself I was just curious. Academically curious. Then I saw them together one day and everything changed. It happened by accident the first time. I took a wrong turn on my way back from the garden with a stack of books and ended up at the tall windows of the sunroom. They didn’t see me. Lucas had Theo pressed against the big wooden table, shirt open, mouth on his neck. The sounds they made stuck in my head for days. After that, I started finding reasons to walk that way. Then I started hiding on purpose. At first I told myself I would only watch for a minute, just to understand what real des