Roman came back at midnight.

I left the door unlocked exactly as he had told me. I was still naked under a thin robe when the soft knock came—three short taps. When I opened it he stepped inside, locked the door behind him, and looked at me like he had spent the last three hours thinking about nothing else. He didn’t speak. He simply pushed the robe off my shoulders, let it fall to the floor, and backed me toward the bedroom.

The second the bedroom door closed he turned me around, bent me over the edge of the mattress, and shoved two thick fingers inside me without warning. I...