Total pages in book: 60
Estimated words: 58987 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 295(@200wpm)___ 236(@250wpm)___ 197(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 58987 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 295(@200wpm)___ 236(@250wpm)___ 197(@300wpm)
She knows there are mirrors positioned behind her. Angled perfectly so the people in front can see what Logan is going to do. Can watch his fingers spread her open. Can see how wet she is. How her pussy clenches around nothing, desperate and needy and—
Logan steps behind her. His hand slides up her inner thigh.
Except it's not Logan anymore.
It's Caleb.
I don't even try to stop it. Don't pretend I'm still writing fiction.
I'm in Ivy's position now. Bent over that bench. Spread wide. Mirrors behind me reflecting everything for the crowd to see.
And Caleb's fingers—those expert, ruthless fingers that know exactly how to make me fall apart—slide through my wetness.
"Look at you," his voice echoes in my head. Low. Commanding. "Dripping for all these strangers to see."
My actual fingers circle my clit. Clumsy compared to his. Desperate compared to his control.
But God, I'm so wet.
"Such a good little slut," Caleb whispers in my fantasy. His finger pushes inside me. Just one. Slow. "Putting on a show. Letting everyone watch what a filthy whore you are."
I arch on my bed. Push two fingers inside myself.
The crowd in my head is watching. Stroking themselves. Getting off on watching Caleb finger-fuck me in front of them.
"Please—" I hear myself beg in the fantasy. "Please, Master—"
The orgasm hits me like a physical blow.
I'm writhing. Making sounds I don't recognize—high, desperate, obscene noises that bounce off these expensive high ceilings and fill my sterile apartment with proof of exactly what I am.
A broken girl who can only come when she imagines the man who stalked her.
The man who killed someone in front of her.
The man who—
Another wave crashes through me and I'm gasping, my fingers working frantically, chasing every last pulse of pleasure until I'm shaking and my thighs are trembling and I can't breathe.
I collapse back against my expensive sheets.
Stare at my expensive ceiling.
Seven times.
I've masturbated seven times since I left him in that alley last night.
Seven incredible orgasms.
After six months of nothing. Six months of my body refusing to respond to anything—not fantasies, not porn, not the battery-powered vibrator I spent two hundred dollars on in a moment of desperate hope.
Nothing worked.
Until yesterday. Until he pressed his thigh between my legs in a dirty alley and called me a filthy slut and my entire body woke up screaming yes.
I should be horrified.
I am horrified.
But I'm also—
God.
I press my wet fingers against my mouth. Taste myself.
The way he made me do. That first time. When he fingered me and then made me suck his fingers clean while he called me a good girl.
My pussy clenches.
I could go again. Right now. I could slip my hand back between my legs and come an eighth time just thinking about—
No.
I force myself to sit up. Swing my legs over the side of the bed.
My thighs are sticky. The sheets are damp beneath me.
Evidence.
I stumble to the bathroom. Turn the shower on scalding hot.
While the water heats, I catch my reflection in the mirror.
Flushed. Hair a mess. Pupils blown wide.
I look like I've been thoroughly fucked.
Except I haven't been. I've just been lying in bed alone, getting myself off to memories of a man who gets turned on by torture.
After my shower, I find myself lingering in the apartment, wandering aimlessly from the bathroom to the kitchen and back again.
Usually, I can't wait to get the fuck out of here as soon as I'm dressed—I've developed this restless, caged feeling the moment I wake up. Like the walls are closing in.
I used to be afraid of the outside world. Used to love my solitary lifestyle, actually. The quiet. The isolation. The way I could disappear into my own head for days at a time without anyone noticing or caring.
I used to tell myself I enjoyed the loneliness—that it was a choice, not a circumstance.
Well, that's not really true, is it?
Maybe I didn't exactly enjoy being lonely, but I was comfortable in it. Familiar with it. It was like an old, worn-out sweater that didn't fit quite right but you kept wearing anyway because at least you knew what to expect.
And besides, I had my writing. My stories. My online community of faceless readers who didn't know my real name or see my real face.
That made it bearable.
More than bearable—it gave me purpose.
That all changed after I came home from the island.
Everything changed.
I couldn't stand to be alone anymore. Couldn't stand to be in that apartment with its four walls closing in and the silence pressing down like a physical weight. Couldn't write a single fucking word, no matter how many times I opened my laptop and stared at the blinking cursor.
The stories that used to flow out of me—dark, twisted, cathartic—they just... stopped.
So... the first thing I did was start looking for a new apartment.
I needed to get out of that studio. Needed walls that didn't hold memories of before—before the island, before him, before everything got so goddamn complicated. I couldn't write there anymore. Couldn't breathe there. Every corner reminded me of the person I used to be, the one who thought she had her life figured out even when it was falling apart.