Nina looked at Adrian when she answered, exactly as she’d been told.“Yes,” she said. Her voice sounded foreign in her own mouth. “I thought about you watching.”Clara’s fingers stayed on the bruise at her throat, a light, proprietary pressure. “And did it make you wetter.”A second silence, thinner than the first.“Yes.”Clara exhaled through her nose—almost a laugh, almost a wound. Her hand slid from Nina’s throat to the side of her neck, then into her hair, not pulling, just holding. On the other side of the room Adrian stood so still he might have been bracing for impact.“Come here,” Clara said to him.He came. Three slow steps. Stopped in front of the sofa with the river black behind him and the whole two months written in the way his eyes moved between their faces.Clara’s voice stayed quiet enough to make the air lean in.“Kneel.”Adrian’s jaw flexed. For a second Nina thought he might refuse the shape of the order—not the desire under it, but the fact of receiving it from the
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