All Chapters of Hundred Nights With Him : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I drove home with both hands tight on the wheel and the taste of him still on my tongue. Every red light felt too long. Every shift of my legs against the seat sent a fresh ache through me that made my face burn. The city moved past the windows but all I could feel was the lingering stretch where he had been buried inside me and the way my pulse still jumped whenever I thought of his voice.When I finally reached the apartment the lights were still on. Theo sat on the couch with his sketchbook open on his knees. He looked up the moment the door closed.You are back late, he said softly.Work ran longer than I expected.He studied my face for a moment longer than felt safe. I wondered if he could see the flush still on my skin. I crossed the room and pressed a kiss to the top of his head the way I had done since we were children.Get some sleep, I told him.He nodded and closed the sketchbook but the quiet questions stayed in his eyes as he walked to his room.I locked myself in the ba

I left the building with the taste of him still on my tongue and the deep ache between my legs reminding me of every thrust he had given me. The weight of his final words pressed hard against my chest. Someone close to me had given him that letter. Someone who had been watching me longer than Riven had.The thought turned over and over in my mind while I drove through the quiet streets and tried to name every person who could have betrayed me this completely. Mira knew almost everything about my life yet she would never hand something so dangerous to a man like Riven. Jonah still claimed he loved me but love had never stopped him from acting selfish. Theo was the only one I trusted without question and the idea that my own brother could be involved made my stomach twist so hard I had to pull over and breathe until the nausea passed.Even as the fear sat heavy in my chest my body still remembered the way Riven had held me down and the low sound he made when he came inside me. The memor

I sat in the metal chair across from Theo exactly as Riven had ordered. The cold seeping through the seat made my skin crawl but I kept my back straight and my eyes fixed on a point on the wall above my brother’s head. Theo’s breathing was uneven. I could hear it even though I was not allowed to look at him.Riven walked slowly between us with his hands still in his pockets. The silence stretched until it felt heavy enough to crush something.You have been lying to yourself since the moment you signed the contract, he said. You told yourself it was only about protecting Theo. You told yourself you could stay detached. You even tried to tell yourself your body was not responding to me. All of that was a lie.I kept my mouth shut.Answer me when I speak to you, Riven said calmly.I forced the words out. What do you want me to say?The truth would be a start.I do not know what truth you are looking for.He stopped in front of me. The truth is that you felt something the first time I tou

Dawn broke cold and gray over the industrial street as Riven finally released us. Theo walked beside me in silence, his shoulders tight and his eyes fixed on the ground. Neither of us spoke until we reached the car. The moment the doors closed the quiet between us felt heavier than the entire night we had just survived.I started the engine. My hands were steady but my chest felt tight. Theo waited until we had left the empty street behind before he finally spoke.Who is he, Nora?I kept my eyes on the road. Someone I made a deal with.What kind of deal makes a man take your brother and keep him in a chair all night?The kind that keeps you out of prison, I said. That is all you need to know for now.Theo turned his head and stared at me. His voice was quieter than usual but sharper. You looked at him like you were afraid of him and something else at the same time. I am not a child. Stop treating me like one.I did not answer. The truth sat too close to the surface and I was not ready

I locked the apartment door behind me and leaned against it for a long moment before I trusted my legs to carry me further. The silence inside felt different now. Heavier. As if Elena’s voice had followed me home and settled into the walls.Theo’s bedroom door was closed. I stood outside it for a few seconds and listened to the quiet sound of his breathing. He was asleep. For now that was enough. I walked to the kitchen, poured a glass of water I did not drink, and sat at the table with my phone face down in front of me.The letter. The woman who was supposed to be dead. The debt that apparently still belonged to me. Every piece of information from the morning sat in my chest like something sharp. I kept replaying the calm way Elena had spoken about my father and the gaps in my own memory. The idea that there were nights I could not remember made my skin feel too tight.I opened my laptop and typed her name the way I remembered it from the old photographs. Nothing useful came up. I tr