ARIA’S POV

“Keep talking. Tell me everything you’re too scared to say out loud.”

I stood in the middle of my dark bedroom, fingers still moving between my legs, body wound so tight every breath felt like it might snap me.

“If you were here right now,” I said, voice already shaky, “I would open the door naked. No clothes. No talking. I would drop to my knees in the hallway and take your cock into my mouth before you even stepped inside.”

Theo groaned low. “Fuck. I would let you. I would bury both hands in your hair and watch every inch disappear between your lips. Then I would...